Solaris 10 10/09 ISO boot hangs on VirtualBox 3.1.4

[roxyland]

Hi, has anyone hit a problem where they cannot boot off a Solaris ISO image ?

I cannot seem to boot off a Solaris 10 10/09 ISO ( have tried a fresh copy of ISO as well, to rule out any issues with the ISO ) with VirtualBox 3.1.4 running on OS X 10.6.2. The boot hangs after displaying the Solaris 10 banner. I've tried various options in VirtualBox to no avail. Attached is the VBox.log. Incidentally, I see the same problem on an OpenSolaris ( snv_130 ) host.

This is a section of the log where is hangs (full log attached):
<--snip-->
00:00:03.901 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:00:03.923 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 41, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:03.924 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:06.634 Guest Log: BIOS: *** int 15h function AX=ec00, BX=0003 not yet supported!
00:00:16.080 Guest Log: BIOS: *** int 15h function AX=ec00, BX=0003 not yet supported!
00:00:16.502 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.502 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.502 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.503 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.509 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.509 PIT: mode=0 count=0xffff (65535) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.558 PIT: mode=3 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:16.843 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=1 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xec (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:16.844 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:00:16.846 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:16.847 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=82
00:00:16.848 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=83
00:00:16.850 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=84
00:00:16.851 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=85
00:00:16.852 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=86
00:00:16.854 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 08, unmapped device for ELDL=87
<-- Hangs here >

[dmcgraw]

It does not really help when you just say that you 'I've tried various options in VirtualBox to no avail.'

Can you post the guest settings which go with the log file snippet that you posted?

[roxyland]

Hi, thanks for looking ... sorry I left out the config. I've attached the output of vminfo and also a verbose console screendump. Looks like Solaris has panicked .. ? This was from booting the default kernel on the DVD image in verbose mode.

[roxyland]

On further checks ... I find that Solaris panics only when I disable IO APIC. Not sure if this is expected ?

[dmcgraw]

On further checks ... I find that Solaris panics only when I disable IO APIC. Not sure if this is expected ?

Yes, I was about to suggest either turning of VT-x/AMD-v or turning on IO APIC.