I use latest available ACPI here, and it works fine with Vbox. Even the shutdown featureTrevorPH wrote:I'm finally happy to report that 3.5 years after first writing the original post in this thread, VB 4.2.0 has fixed the problems I was having. Admittedly I had to revert to using os2apic.psd instead of acpi.psd but that doesn't concern me in the least.
does now work.
That seams to be not quite true .......What I have now running under CentOS 5 is an OS/2 system with dual processors, 2GB RAM, 2 virtual disks and it has functioning network and USB hard disks. Even the video has no problems running with SNAP 3.1.8.
That is a know problem with SNAP, which isn't SMP safe. With ex. 4 CPUs enabled, it hangsSo far, 4.2.0 seems to allow use of all of them though I have had a few hangs on PM startup creating the desktop but those used to happen anyway before, they just seem a bit more frequent now than before... but a quick Ctrl-Alt-Del almost always fixes it next time around so...
hard at every startup here.
I tried sysbenching SNAP, Panorama and Gengradd. There is not any big difference.
Dive is same for all - Panorama and Gengradd completely the same, and SNAP a bit
faster than the others in Graphics tests.
Since Panorama has its own quirks, I'll say Gengradd looks like the best choice for
>1 CPU use in VBOX