Hi Achim,
Achim Hasenmueller wrote: > I can reproduce the iostat -En issue (SATA is reported as ATA). I am > not sure that this is what's causing the installer to take several > minutes discovering the SATA disk. It is unlikely this is the reason why you see the installer hanging in disk discovery. I have upgraded from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 and I am able to boot LiveCD in VB guest with SATA disk attached - now with VT-x/AMD-V enabled (fix for http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2292 works fine) and install on SATA drive. I didn't encounter delay during the disk discovery phase as installer Disk screen was brought up almost immediately. Then I tried several combinations of VT-x/AMD-V, IO APIC, ... options and could see the delay when following configuration was used: ACPI: Enabled IO APIC: Disabled VT-x/AMD-v: Disabled PAE/NX: Enabled So it seems that the problem with hang might be specific to particular host/guest configuration or/and VB version. Do you happen to know in which configuration you are seeing the hang ? Is there any difference if you enable 'IO APIC' or play with other options ? Thank you, Jan > If it is, I'd strongly suggest to get the fix into 2008.11. > > Achim. > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:15 PM, jan damborsky wrote: > >> Hi Achim, Alexander, >> >> as far as problem seen in VirtualBox is concerned, could you please >> provide more details about configuration you used when encountering >> that issue (HW, host operating system, how much memory you >> dedicated to the guest, other settings - VT-x/AMD-V,ACPI, ...) ? >> >> There were couple of SATA issues reported in 2.0.2, which are fixed >> in 2.0.4: >> >> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2292 >> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2182 >> >> I have tried to launch the installer on VB 2.0.2 guest (1GB memory) >> with one SATA disk attached and I haven't seen that hang in disk >> discovery - >> Disk screen was displayed immediately. >> I haven't tried the installation. >> >> I have used following configuration: >> >> host: >> ----- >> HW: Lenovo Thinkpad X61 (4GB RWM) >> SW: OpenSolaris build 101a >> VB: 2.0.2 >> >> guest: >> ------ >> base memory: 1024 MB >> OS Type: OpenSolaris >> ACPI: Enabled >> IO APIC: Enabled >> VT-x/AMD-v: disabled (workaround for bug 2292) >> PAE/NX: Enabled >> >> >> With respect to problems with SATA disk discovery hanging on bare metal, >> do you happen to know, which HW configuration might be suffering >> from this issue ? >> >> Thank you, >> Jan >> >> >> William Schumann wrote: >>> There are two separate bugs that are addressing problems with >>> library libdiskmgt correctly reporting type on SATA drives for real >>> hardware: >>> >>> 6558646 DM_CTYPE attribute is set to "unknown" for SATA controllers >>> handled by "sata" driver >>> http://monaco.sfbay/detail.jsf?cr=6558646 >>> >>> auto-installer can not identify SATA disk type (most likely a >>> duplicate of the former) >>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4387 >>> >>> The former has been in the 'accept' state since June. If libdiskmgt >>> bugs are now affecting VirtualBox, they should perhaps be escalated >>> (currently P3). >>> >>> I will inquire about status of fixes for libdiskmgt - they are not >>> presently being handled by the install group. >>> William Schumann >>> >>> Dave Miner wrote: >>>> Vincent Murphy wrote: >>>>> Achim, >>>>> >>>>> Best person to contact is Dave Miner - however, I would also send >>>>> mail to indiana-eng as this may be a known issue. If not then >>>>> raise a bug :-) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Achim, Alexander: William Schumann on the install team is the best >>>> person to work with on disk discovery issues; he's in Prague and >>>> should be back in the office tomorrow since today's a holiday >>>> there. I've copied him. >>>> >>>> I believe I've seen this issue, though I rarely have used SATA in >>>> my vbox instances, and I'm not aware of any existing bug reports >>>> related to it. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> Vincent >>>>> >>>>> On 11/17/08 12:46, Achim Hasenmueller wrote: >>>>>> Hi Vincent, >>>>>> >>>>>> when installing OpenSolaris (2008.5 or .11) in a VirtualBox VM >>>>>> with a SATA disk configured for the VM, the installer takes >>>>>> several minutes to discover the disk. >>>>>> >>>>>> We have been trying to debug this from our end but without >>>>>> success. Also we have found reports on the web about people >>>>>> having the same issue with physical hardware. Therefore, we now >>>>>> need help from the OS team. Who in your team could Alexander work >>>>>> with? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Achim Hasenmueller >>>>>> Director Engineering, VirtualBox >>>>>> Sun Microsystems GmbH >>>>>> Werkstrasse 24 >>>>>> 71384 Weinstadt, Germany >>>>>> phone: +49 7151 604050 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ================================================ >>>>>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, >>>>>> Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten >>>>>> Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 >>>>>> Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, >>>>>> Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boehmer >>>>>> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering >>>>>> ================================================ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> >
