Centos 5.3 x86_64 guest will not boot (Phenom II; AMD-V) -> fixed in SVN

[Paul Bransford]

Host system: Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 (NX/VT/PAE etc supported)
Guest: Centos 5.3 x86_64 netinstall media (cdrom iso)

The guest will not boot properly. isolinux runs and presents menus correctly, but the kernel hangs with the following lines displayed (with vbox utilizing 100% of a host CPU)
Kernel alive
kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ 8000-d000

The isolinux menu boots the kernel with only the initrd specified, no other parameters are passed (such as quiet)

I have attached a .tgz archive containing the machine's XML and a VBox.log

Quick summary of guest (and VM) settings:
OS Type: Linux 2.6 (64 bit)
Base Memory: 512 MB (of 4 GB)
Video Memory: 16 MB (of 512 MB)
Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
ACPI: Enabled
IO APIC: Enabled
VT-X/AMD-V: Enabled (required for 64-bit guest. Supported by hardware)
Nested Paging: Enabled
PAE/NX: Enabled
3D Acceleration: Enabled

Hard Disks: One empty 10 GB image

CD-DVD: ISO (CentOS5-5.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso)
md5sum (binary mode): 7dec88e4147d6d90785ca57501af807e
obtain from: ​http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos/5.3/isos/x86_64/

Audio: ALSA (ICH AC97 mode)

Network: Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop (bridged mode)

USB fully enabled, no filters defined

[Paul Bransford]

machine xml and log file

[Sander van Leeuwen]

The archive appears corrupted. Please attach the VBox.log as a textfile so I don't have to download and unpack it first.

[nylan]

Same Problem with the CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso

Same config as above except: 3d acceleration disabled

[Paul Bransford]

machine XML

[Paul Bransford]

execution log

[Paul Bransford]

Sorry, individual files uploaded. Somehow, I managed to recursively gzip the tar archive several times.

[Frank Mehnert]

draeath, does it make any difference if you disable nested paging for that VM?

[Paul Bransford]

No changes to the observed behaviour

[Cherife Li]

64-bit slackware guest on 32-bit slackware host

[Cherife Li]

Running Virtualbox 2.2.2 on slackware linux (32bit) and tried to install slackware64 (64bit) as guest. The Intel VT-x is enabled. I've read about the 64-bit guest section in the UserManual.pdf. I've also tried to install RHEL5.2 (64bit) guest. Almost the same issue, the host become non-responsive (hang), some times the host auto-reboot, after the guest installation loaded initrd.img.

The log file has been attached.

Thanks!

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Cherife: your problem is different. Please open another defect.

Draeath: this looks like a duplicate.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Similar to #3923, but not quite the same.

[Chris Wadge]

CentOS 5.3/AMD64 | VirtualBox 2.2.4 | AMD Phenom 2 (955) | Linux 2.6.29.4 x86

[Paul Bransford]

I've changed my host system to Debian stable. Recreating the machines with vbox 2.2.4 r47978 the same behavior occurs, however an i386 CentOS guest does boot correctly.

This seems to be for a x86_64 CentOS guest only.

[nkinchev]

CentOS 5.3/4.7 AMD64 | VirtualBox 2.2.4 | AMD Phenom 9850

Host - Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows 7 same behavior

Guest - CentOS 5.3 and 4.7 / AMD64 same behavior

It looks any CentOS 64bit kernel doesn't boot.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

nylan75: you have disabled the IO-APIC somehow. 64 bits guests will not work without it.

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Reproduced and fixed in SVN. Will be included in the next version.