Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Brantone
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Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by Brantone »

Mavericks 10.9.2 box that has been successfully loaded on numerous other Mac machines.
Ported to a Mid 2011 MacMini, running 10.9.3 ... and it starts loading, gets going then just restarts itself and continues the cycle. No halt or kernel panic.
Of anything that stands out, all have led to dead ends:
* BootCacheControl: Unable to open /var/db/BootCache.playlist : 2 No such file or directory
* Few SMC errors: smcReadData8 failed for key LsNM; kSMCKeyNotFound; smcGetLightshowVers failed
* Previous shutdown Cause: 3
* SMC::InitHelper ERRPR: MMIO regMap ==NULL - fall back to old SMC mode
* flow_divert_kctl_disconnect
* ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin waitForSerice timed out

Trawling other forums/support, majority SMC errors get mentioned for doing boot options, but can't do that with VB from what I've read.
Went so far as to try older versions of VB, but no dice.
One of the things that makes me go "hmmmm", is this Mini that it's working on is case-sensitive, but not sure how much that matters.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by socratis »

Your log confirms that your machine is rebooting. Other than that, I can't say that anything looks out of the ordinary. Would you mind posting the .vbox file of the VM?
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by Brantone »

Attached.
Thanks.

I'm going through all the kext attempts again just to verify my sanity ... since this exact box works on other hosts, I'm leaning towards something with the host hardware ... they're all legit MacMinis running legit OSX .... but they recently had RAM upgraded, so maybe something with that?? At this point kinda grasping at straws.

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** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by socratis »

Here are some interesting titbits that I found that are not part of your "typical" recipe and might be responsible for the failure:
1. <ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/CPUM/MSRs/MsrCoreThreadCount/First" value="0x00000035"/>
2. <ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/vagrant" value="1"/>
3. <Memory RAMSize="3072" PageFusion="false"/>
4. <Display VRAMSize="8" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="false" accelerate2DVideo="false"/>
5. <SharedFolders>
     <SharedFolder name="vagrant" hostPath="/Users/jenkins/Unity_VMs/diw-buildunity01" writable="true" autoMount="false"/>
   </SharedFolders>
Here are some thoughts on each of those:
  1. The "MsrCoreThreadCount" that you enabled, was there in order to bypass a very specific known issue in 4.3.8. Remove it.
  2. Shared folders? On OSX? With Vagrant? I just realized (from the contents of your .vbox) file what you meant in your first post when you said "Mavericks 10.9.2 box". You meant a Vagrant box. Not sure how and where you got that, but I'm not familiar with what Vagrant does to a VM or how they do it. You may have to ask them. Anyway, shared folders require the Guest Additions and they don't exist for OSX. So, get please remove them (although I don't think they're responsible for the failure.
  3. Not anything crazy, but see if lowering it to 2048 MB or RAM changes anything. I vaguely remember a problem with too much memory on OSX guests, but not what caused it or if it's fixed or not.
  4. Could you increase the VRAM to at least 32 MB?
  5. See above.
And by re-reading your first post, it seems that I've missed this very important bit:
Brantone wrote:this Mini that it's working on is case-sensitive
Did you mean that the Mini that you're trying to get this working on is a case-sensitive HFS+ filesystem?

Now, if you have this VM working on another Mac, see if you can make a copy of a working one and that boots. See: Moving a VM for the details.

Finally, see if the VM can boot when you're doing a "normal" installation, i.e. with a bootable 10.9 iso file, after setting up a new default-template 10.9 64-bit OSX VM.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by Brantone »

Thanks for the excellent advice, will give 'er a try and report back ... in mean time:

1. Yeah the "MsrCoreThreadCount" was an attempt to fix based on forum post.
2. Shared folder solely part of Vagrant, pretty sure tried both with and with-out, but will wrap all changes in.
3. Hmm, never thought of bumping it lower, I know on some other systems putting it above 3Gb would fail but usually 3Gb worked.. regardless, will try that as well.
4. Will try.

"Official" format in Disk Utility is: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled).

Will try various attempts, thanks!!!
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

Post by Brantone »

Ugh. Still no luck.
Tried recreating VM using tips from here http://www.robertsetiadi.net/install-os-x-virtualbox/ and here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/ ... irtualbox/ (as applicable since this isn't hackintosh, but mac on mac).
:(
However, something different this time, on initial boot (to not even install), get stack trace:

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Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy(1.0[hexblabhablh] _SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily
dependency: com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily .. assertion in AppleHDADriver at line 219
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily
(had to use screen video capture to get that since no log output)

Just waiting for VM in saved-state to finish transferring to try that method.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Sooo ...
If I save the VM in a running state on the host where it actually works, and transfer it over to this other host ... when I start it, it works!! ... BUT if I shut down the VM or try to reboot, it starts throwing errors again.
Just ridiculous :(

EDIT: forgot the "working" host is an Xserve, so ECC .. whereas "non-working" host is just mini, will need to fiddle with Extension
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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My gut feeling is that it's the CaSe-SeNsItIvE file system. Basically your VM dies while reading the EFI. I haven't checked the sources to confirm it, but "I have a bad feeling about this"™. And, no, it shouldn't be the ECC memory on the Xserve. VirtualBox doesn't care about it.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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So it's "working" ... by way of:
1. On working good host, saved guest VM to saved state
2. Transfered to "non-working" dumb host.
3. Continued running guest VM successfully, note: from saved state, so not restarted.
4. On guest: sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTyMCEDriver.kext
5. On guest: rebooted ... and it came back up.

So I got it working, so far ... but have no explanation what the difference is.
My own gut says something with case-sensitive as well, but that's disputed by other team members ... and sadly need it sensitive due to our build farm (slightly beyond my control, "fun" times).

Now that it's "working", need to catch up on pipelines, but I will be coming back to this to figure out the "Why".
Ah computers: don't know why it doesn't work, then don't know why it works. Ugh. :twisted:

Btw: thanks so much for walking me through this.
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Can confirm that this doesn't have anything to do with case-sensitivity ... have a tertiary MacMini there the hardware is different, but still case-sensitive and can confirm it does works on there.
I'm now looking into host hardware ... there might be non-Apple supported hardware somewhere (oh the joys in dealing with different departments).
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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You've already posted one log from the Mini when the VM kept rebooting. Could you post a log from the Xserve (for example), so we can compare them? The closest the "run" of the VM in the two different hosts, the better.

Nice detective work BTW (icon doesn't exist on the right, but thumbs up ;) )
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Well here's some crazier stuff ...
As somewhat alluded to, we have a bank of macMinis that I was told were the same, well guess what ... they're not :cry: ... and now I feel stupid for not checking this waaaaay sooner. :roll:

So as it turns out the couple that I just so happened to try obviously failed ... after a bit of time away, I said "screw it, let's start on a completely different macMini" ... and straight after the install and "Start", with no mods or tweaks, it worked ... Imagine my shock. Then anger. :twisted:
In this bank of 8 macMinis (quasi build farm), the 2 that myself and a buddy were working on, were the only 2 that didn't work.
After I bandaged my hand from having punched holes in the wall, was time to compare the stats on all these "same" boxes.

From what I can tell, the top noticeable differences between "work" and "not-#^@%$@-working":
  • Date: yes: Late 2012 -- no: Mid 2011
  • Graphics: yes: Intel HD Graphics 4000 -- no: AMD Radeon HD 6630M 256MB
  • Graphics Bus: yes: Built-in @ 1024Mb VRAM -- no:PCIe @ 256Mb VRAM
Armed with this new info, did some searching and this is a smattering of stuff but nothing concrete. Some is 2+ yrs old (ex: some forums mentioned issues with 2009 minis), and others only mentions Lion or Mountain Lion on older versions of VirtualBox ... granted I shouldn't have assumed that those issues wouldn't percolate to Mavericks, but alas, here I am, and will follow-up on anything I find searching "PCIe" (of which there's a few).

Is there something I've overlooking as an "aha!" moment, or just generally missing??

(@socratis: thanks for following and your support, your thread on Status of OSX on OSX was a great starting point!)
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Attached are the "working" vbox + log files.
By "working" I mean that they're loadable on the Host machine, it's exact same VM as compared to "non-working" (which will be next post since 3 file max for attachments).
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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Aaaaand the "not-working" vbox + log ... again, same VM, just the host is what makes it "not work".
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Re: Continual restarts for 10.9.2 guest on 10.9.3 host

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One other key difference according to Mactracker (a really wonderful tool for Apple-hardware users), is IMHO the processor:
Mid 2011: Intel Core i5 or Core i7 (2415M, 2520M, 2620M) ("Sandy Bridge")
Late 2012: Intel Core i5 or Core i7 (3210M, 3615QM, 3720QM) ("Ivy Bridge")

There are some people in the list (I'm looking at you rpmurray ;) ) that have tweaked the registers presented to the VM successfully. I have no freaking idea what they did, but it would be a good exercise. I'll take a look at and compare the two logs and see if I can figure out something. Anything...
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