Oracle Linux watchdog

[Jack_doidao]

Dear,

I'm creating my machine with 5GB of RAM 1 CPU 30GB disk
when you load the disk to install, the message is displayed:

activating NMI watchdog .... done

And the installation does not continue.
any suggestion ?

Oracle Linux 5.6
virtual box 5.2
SSD Disc 120GB
FX8300
M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3

[socratis]

We're going to need to see a VM log from a complete VM run:

• Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe error / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

[Jack_doidao]

Dear all,

Now there is another error that is in the previous log

best regards

[Jack_doidao]

We're going to need to see a VM log from a complete VM run:

• Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe error / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

attachment

[Jack_doidao]

Any updates?

[socratis]

You do not wake up a thread twice in less than 24 hours! Especially when it took you that long to get the log in the first place. You wake up a thread after 3-5 days of inactivity. Not twice in less than a day. It's not good etiquette. We're volunteer users here, not your personal 24/7 support. And you 're not the only one asking for help.

Keep in mind that the psychological pressure, the sort that you tried to apply with your posts, actually makes users less keen to look at an issue.

[socratis]

I was finally able to get a hold of Oracle Linux so that I can compare your logs with mine. The only thing that I found that could help was this:

00:00:01.918872 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000001000000 (16 777 216, 16 MB)

Your VRAM is way too low for a Linux VM. Take it to 32, 64 or even better max it out at 128 MB.

00:00:01.918524 NumCPUs <integer> = 0x0000000000000001 (1)
00:00:02.426372 CPUM: Physical host cores: 4

You could also benefit if you gave your VM a 2nd CPU, you have 4, you can afford it. Things are going to be much smoother.

[Jack_doidao]

Hi

Now shows a new error

VM with:
4GB Memory RAM
2 CPU
128mb Vram

[socratis]

Now shows a new error

Do you mean that it gets "stuck" at that point? Because I can't see anything wrong with your configuration as is.

The only thing I saw that raised some question marks, was right before a big gap in time, at about the 15" mark, right before the VM was shut down:

00:00:15.481798 GIM: KVM: Enabled wall-clock struct. at 0x00000000006cc6c4 - u32Sec=1538527249 u32Nano=832941878 uVersion=2
00:00:15.634251 IEM: rdmsr(0x403) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634307 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000400) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634332 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000401) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634346 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000402) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634360 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000403) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634373 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000404) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634387 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000405) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634400 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000406) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634413 IEM: rdmsr(0xc0000407) -> #GP(0)
00:00:15.634427 IEM: rdmsr(0x407) -> #GP(0)
00:01:08.309824 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'

If I'm not mistaken, IEM is the Instruction Interpreter. And looking through the source code, this message appears with the following comment:

Code: Select all

    /* Often a unimplemented MSR or MSR bit, so worth logging. */
        LogRel(("IEM: rdmsr(%#x) -> #GP(0)\n", pVCpu->cpum.GstCtx.ecx));

I'm seeking for clarification from the developers on this. In the mean time can you disable the KVM paravirtualization? VM Settings » System » Acceleration » Paravirtualization Interface, set it to "None". See if that changes the situation...

[Jack_doidao]

Done ( Paravirtualization Interface, set it to "None")

Attachment error

[Jack_doidao]

Any updates?

[socratis]

Nothing obvious. There's one last thing I'm thinking of trying, if that doesn't work, I'm done with suggestions.

Open a Command Prompt window and issue the following command, while the VM is completely shut down:

• 
  "D:\Arquivos de programas_D\VBoxManage" modifyvm "Oracle_teste_1" --cpu-profile "Intel Core i7-6700K"
  

This ("D:\Arquivos de programas_D\") is where it seems that you've installed your VirtualBox. And "Oracle_teste_1" is your VM name...

[Jack_doidao]

hummm...


Hello,

opening with the following error attachment

[socratis]

When I give you a command prompt, 1) I expect to see the input (the command you typed) as well as the output, if there's a failure, and 2) I expect you to copy/paste the command, not interpret it, unless specifically told to, usually by including the parameter(s) in "<option>" tags.

I gave you a very specific CPU profile:

"Intel Core i7-6700K"

and you typed:

"Intel Core i7-6700k"

No wonder it fails and can't find the profile...

[socratis]

@Jack_doidao
I would really appreciate it if you don't post "any update?" messages in other threads that have the word "watchdog" in the title. You have your own thread, you do not need to wake up 2-year old threads. That makes my life as a moderator difficult...