Problem installing Fedora 11 on Vista 64 Home w/ ver 3.0.0

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mshonle
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Primary OS: MS Windows Vista
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Guest OSses: Fedora, Windows XP

Problem installing Fedora 11 on Vista 64 Home w/ ver 3.0.0

Post by mshonle »

I just upgraded to virtualBox 3.0.0 and tried to set up a new Fedora 11 box. (I had previously successfully set up one using virtualBox 2.4). The installation starts but at some point, it has problems:

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [udevd:41]
Modules linked in:

Pid: 41, comm: udevd Not tainted (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1) VirtualBox
EIP: 0060:[<c0433f63>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0

etc. etc.


O/S: Windows Vista 64 home premium
CPU: Intel Core i7

any ideas?

Thanks
-Mike
mshonle
Posts: 2
Joined: 8. Jul 2009, 04:57
Primary OS: MS Windows Vista
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Fedora, Windows XP

Re: Problem installing Fedora 11 on Vista 64 Home w/ ver 3.0.0

Post by mshonle »

After looking into this some more and doing more tests, it seems there's an issue if you try to let it use too much RAM. If I set it to the default 256K, it works, and if I set it to 1.7 MB, then it starts crashing or hanging or otherwise misbehaving. Setting to to 960K seems to work, though.
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