[CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2014-01-20 Thread Endre Bjørsvik
I also got the same segfault after upgrading to CentOS 6.5. The VirtualBox gui segfaults before it appears, and I can not start the VMs from the terminal either. Upgrading or downgrading to various VirtualBox or kernel versions did not work either. A workaround for me was to start the VMs using

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Steve Clark
On 12/06/2013 07:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 06/12/13 12:26, Scott Robbins wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:08:05AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 12/6/2013 12:22 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: KVM? I must admit I haven't even heard of it, except if you are talking about switchboxes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 06/12/13 12:26, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:08:05AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 12/6/2013 12:22 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: >>> KVM? I must admit I haven't even heard of it, except if you are talking >>> about switchboxes;-) >>> >>> Can it be configured to run an actual

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:08:05AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/6/2013 12:22 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > > KVM? I must admit I haven't even heard of it, except if you are talking > > about switchboxes;-) > > > > Can it be configured to run an actual Windows partition? (This is how I > > use Vi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Giles Coochey
On 06/12/2013 08:18, Toralf Lund wrote: On 06/12/13 04:15, Anthony K wrote: On 06/12/13 01:08, Toralf Lund wrote: OK. So it's my system. - Toralf Not necessarily! I wouldn't worry too much about VirtualBox 4.3 - it is terribly hosed; I suggest you downgrade back to 4.2.20 which, Problem is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/6/2013 12:22 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > KVM? I must admit I haven't even heard of it, except if you are talking > about switchboxes;-) > > Can it be configured to run an actual Windows partition? (This is how I > use VirtualBox today.) "Kernel Virtualization Mode" or something. its a hypervis

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 19:08, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: >> Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for >> some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started >> exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, befo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 18:50, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/5/2013 5:35 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: >> Precisely! An the host being the CentOS 6.5 system. Perhaps I wasn't >> clear enough about this, although it seemed obvious when I wrote the post. >> >> The guest OS really doesn't come into the picture at all, in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Toralf Lund
On 06/12/13 04:15, Anthony K wrote: > On 06/12/13 01:08, Toralf Lund wrote: >> OK. So it's my system. >> >> - Toralf >> > Not necessarily! I wouldn't worry too much about VirtualBox 4.3 - it is > terribly hosed; I suggest you downgrade back to 4.2.20 which, Problem is, I also tried a couple of dif

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Anthony K
On 06/12/13 01:08, Toralf Lund wrote: > OK. So it's my system. > > - Toralf > Not necessarily! I wouldn't worry too much about VirtualBox 4.3 - it is terribly hosed; I suggest you downgrade back to 4.2.20 which, like Giles, I've been using without any adverse effects for a while. I too run a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/5/2013 6:52 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > So cpu's without vmx are not as ancient as they might appear. true, I always forget about the low end economy version processors as I tend to buy within a couple notches of the top, rather than the bottom of whatever generation, figuring that gets m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:28:29 -0800 John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/5/2013 12:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > AFAIK, KVM does not support host CPU's which don't have > > virtualization support. If OP has somewhat aged hardware, he may > > have no option but to use VirtualBox. > > that would be som

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:59:36PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Fred Smith > wrote: > > > > > Not arguing with you, but... I recall hearing probably only a couple > > years ago that not all the contemporary Intel processors exposed that > > option, so you couldn't u

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > > Not arguing with you, but... I recall hearing probably only a couple > years ago that not all the contemporary Intel processors exposed that > option, so you couldn't use it on some processors. The writer of that > blurb reported no obvious r

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:28:29PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/5/2013 12:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > AFAIK, KVM does not support host CPU's which don't have virtualization > > support. If OP has somewhat aged hardware, he may have no option but to > > use VirtualBox. > > that would b

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/5/2013 12:30 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > AFAIK, KVM does not support host CPU's which don't have virtualization > support. If OP has somewhat aged hardware, he may have no option but to > use VirtualBox. that would be some old crufty hardware, like pentium-4 (or the equivalent single core

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:50:41 -0800 John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/5/2013 5:35 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > > Precisely! An the host being the CentOS 6.5 system. Perhaps I wasn't > > clear enough about this, although it seemed obvious when I wrote > > the post. > > > > The guest OS really doesn't come i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/5/2013 10:14 AM, Wes James wrote: > I was curious about "kvm" and asked google "kvm vs virutalbox" and found > this: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_haswell_virtualization&num=2 my experience is, disk IO is even more extreme, we do a lot of database stuff (mostl

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Wes James
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > > > have you considered using KVM rather than VirtualBox for this? > > Configured properly, its much higher performance. > > Benchmarks? > > FC > ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/5/2013 10:05 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> > >> >have you considered using KVM rather than VirtualBox for this? >> >Configured properly, its much higher performance. > Benchmarks? I don't have any hard benchmarks, but KVM is performing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > > Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for > some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started > exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are > opened or anything. I've tri

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > have you considered using KVM rather than VirtualBox for this? > Configured properly, its much higher performance. Benchmarks? FC ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/5/2013 5:35 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > Precisely! An the host being the CentOS 6.5 system. Perhaps I wasn't > clear enough about this, although it seemed obvious when I wrote the post. > > The guest OS really doesn't come into the picture at all, in that > VirtualBox seems to crash long before

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 05/12/13 15:01, Giles Coochey wrote: > > Toralf Lund writes: >> Hi >> >> Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for >> some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started >> exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, bef

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Giles Coochey
Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are opened or anything. I've tried a few different versions, all w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 04/12/13 14:18, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 04/12/2013 13:16, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On 04/12/2013 12:39, Lars Hecking wrote: >>> Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Toralf Lund
On 04/12/13 18:12, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: >> Toralf Lund writes: >>> So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1ed > I gue

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.12.2013 18:12, schrieb Rainer Traut: > Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: >> Toralf Lund writes: > >>> So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? >> >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1e

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: > Toralf Lund writes: >> So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? > > > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1ed I guess the threadstarter meant VB on the host.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Giles Coochey
On 04/12/2013 13:16, Giles Coochey wrote: On 04/12/2013 12:39, Lars Hecking wrote: Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Giles Coochey
On 04/12/2013 12:39, Lars Hecking wrote: Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are opened or anything. I'

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Lars Hecking
Toralf Lund writes: > Hi > > Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for > some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started > exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are > opened or anything. I've tried a few different vers

[CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after startup, before windows are opened or anything. I've tried a few different versions, all with the same result.