calibrate_APIC_clock issue on Win 7 X64 Home Premium

[mikey]

I've installed the OTD Developer Days VM package from Oracle:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/datab ... 61299.html

I'm running a Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit system on a Toshiba Satellite C655D with an AMD processor.

I was running this VM on an old wheezy Win XP box with no problems at all, but when I got the new machine, I imported the VM I was using from the old machine and got the following message:

Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
WARNING calibrate_APIC_clock: The APIC timer calibration may be wrong.

and the VM just sits there. I redownloaded the VM from oracle thinking I'd performed the import incorrectly, but the results and error message are the same. I'm not a linux ninja, but if need be, I can fix some code but I might need some hand-holding.

Forgive me if this has been covered. I searched and found references to it, but all for linux host OS, not as a guest OS under windows. How exactly do I get an error log out of it?

Thanks in advance.

[Perryg]

Post the guest log file (as an attachment) as well as:
From the hosts terminal/command window type VBoxManage showvminfo <VM Name> --details and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM. Use "" if the name has a space in it.

Note if the host is Windows you need to be in the directory that has VBoxManage.exe for the command to work.

[mikey]

I get "The system cannot find the file specified." Does the vmname require the entire path to the VM? It's not saved in the same subdirectory as VBoxManage.exe

[Perryg]

It usually means that you are not in the directory that has VBoxManage.exe in the command window.

[mikey]

Nope. looking right ast it. I can ruin vboxmanage and get a laundry list of command options, but not when I input the VM name. I've tried "" for spaces in names, " ", full file path, nothing is working for that.

[mikey]

WOOHOO!!! I changed the <VMName> from <OTN Developer Days> to "OTN" "Developer" "Days" and I got the message Access is denied
Progress of sorts anyway

[Perryg]

If you look at the name in the VBox GUI that is the registered name of the VM.
At least post the guests log file (as an attachment)

[mikey]

GOT IT!!

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C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage showvminfo "OTN Developer Days" --
details
Name:            OTN Developer Days
Guest OS:        Other Linux
UUID:            eec24881-a92f-45dc-a542-93040e97620c
Config file:     C:\Users\Donna.Donna-Toshiba\VirtualBox VMs\OTN Developer Days\
OTN Developer Days.vbox
Snapshot folder: C:\Users\Donna.Donna-Toshiba\VirtualBox VMs\OTN Developer Days\
Snapshots
Log folder:      C:\Users\Donna.Donna-Toshiba\VirtualBox VMs\OTN Developer Days\
Logs
Hardware UUID:   eec24881-a92f-45dc-a542-93040e97620c
Memory size:     900MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       12MB
HPET:            off
Chipset:         piix3
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  1
Synthetic Cpu:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          off
PAE:             on
Time offset:     0 ms
RTC:             local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: off
Nested Paging:   on
Large Pages:     on
VT-x VPID:       on
State:           powered off (since 2011-05-13T20:19:15.000000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Storage Controller Name (0):            IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            Floppy Controller
Storage Controller Type (1):            I82078
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  1
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      1
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
IDE Controller (0, 0): C:\Users\Donna.Donna-Toshiba\VirtualBox VMs\OTN Developer
 Days\OTN_DD_ROOT_1.vmdk (UUID: f603f22f-5782-41cb-a90a-2ef12588c8f0)
IDE Controller (0, 1): C:\Users\Donna.Donna-Toshiba\VirtualBox VMs\OTN Developer
 Days\OTN_DD_ORACLE_1.vmdk (UUID: 9f3b8d73-b72c-427f-bbeb-e3376f512fbb)
IDE Controller (1, 0): C:\PROGRA~1\Oracle\VIRTUA~1\VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (UUID:
 715bfa2f-8926-4055-b58f-7b09572a16cc)
Floppy Controller (0, 0): Empty
NIC 1:           MAC: 0800272084B5, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace:
 off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0
NIC 1 Settings:  MTU: 0, Socket( send: 64, receive: 64), TCP Window( send:64, re
ceive: 64)
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
NIC 5:           disabled
NIC 6:           disabled
NIC 7:           disabled
NIC 8:           disabled
Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:          disabled
UART 2:          disabled
Audio:           enabled (Driver: DSOUND, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode:  Bidirectional
VRDE:            disabled
USB:             enabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Shared folders:  <none>

VRDE Connection:    not active
Clients so far:     0

Guest:

OS type:                             Linux
Additions run level:                 0
Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB



C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>

[Perryg]

And the guests log file?
In the main VBox GUI click on Machine tab and show log. Click save and post (as an attachment)

[mikey]

Won;t let me post a .txt as an attachment, and the attempt to save and attach as .html and .gif were bounced. I also tried direct paste, but the post size limit is 60K characters.

I'm finding the forum limits right off the bat

[Perryg]

Change the extension to .log and attach. If it still will not allow then see how big the file is and if necessary zip the file.

[mikey]

That did it. Thanks. One less headache for the day. I better quit while I'm ahead.

[Perryg]

At boot time you need to edit the boot string to include divider=10 at the end.
After booted you would edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst to have this entry.

This should do it but if not let me know and i will give you an additional entry to put on the end of the line as well

[mikey]

How exactly does one perform this editing? (this is the hand-holding part I warned you about)

[Perryg]

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 56#p127220

If this allows you to boot then read this.http://blogs.oracle.com/fatbloke/entry/ ... nux_guests