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From: ITguy on 19 Jan 2010 22:19
> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>
> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
>
> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
> the problem is due to lack of memory.

I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
3.x. What version of VBox are you running?
From: george on 19 Jan 2010 22:38
ITguy wrote:
>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>
>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>
>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>
> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
> 3.x. What version of VBox are you running?

I'm running 3.0.4 . So the finger is pointing at VirtualBox rather than
solaris 10 ?? I am running virtual box in this machine because its a
Phenom 4-core with hardware virtualisation and it goes like a rocket. I
am now copying this virtual machine on to a much slower pentium 4 and
will conduct some tests to see if the problem happens on it.
From: Chris Ridd on 20 Jan 2010 01:50
On 2010-01-20 03:38:55 +0000, george said:

> ITguy wrote:
>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>
>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>
>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>
>> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
>> 3.x. What version of VBox are you running?
>
> I'm running 3.0.4 .

There are even more recent versions.

--
Chris

From: Ravi on 20 Jan 2010 03:22
On 20 Jan, 07:06, george <geo...(a)twig.tk> wrote:
> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>
> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
>
> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>
> George

George, try to increase the memory to 1gb, i hope u are stuck up with
device detections particularly VGA,
If you still facing the problem then boot with verbose mode. and see
where it stucks.
From: solx on 20 Jan 2010 06:45
On 20/01/2010 03:38, george wrote:
> ITguy wrote:
>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>
>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>
>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>
>> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
>> 3.x. What version of VBox are you running?
>
> I'm running 3.0.4 . So the finger is pointing at VirtualBox rather than
> solaris 10 ?? I am running virtual box in this machine because its a
> Phenom 4-core with hardware virtualisation and it goes like a rocket. I
> am now copying this virtual machine on to a much slower pentium 4 and
> will conduct some tests to see if the problem happens on it.

There were stablity problems with VirtualBox versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.7
inclusive and should be avoided. These problems were resolved in v3.0.8
and later. The current VirtualBox release is v3.1.2. Check the
VirtualBox forums for more details.
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