It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :

Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think 
the problem is due to lack of memory.

George

> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>
> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
>
> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
> the problem is due to lack of memory.

I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
3.x.  What version of VBox are you running?

ITguy wrote:
>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>
>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>
>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>
> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
> 3.x.  What version of VBox are you running?

I'm running 3.0.4 . So the finger is pointing at VirtualBox rather than 
solaris 10 ??   I am running virtual box in this machine because its a 
Phenom 4-core with hardware virtualisation and it goes like a rocket. I 
am now copying this virtual machine on to a much slower pentium 4 and 
will conduct some tests to see if the problem happens on it.

On 2010-01-20 03:38:55 +0000, george said:

> ITguy wrote:
>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>> 
>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>> 
>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>> 
>> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
>> 3.x.  What version of VBox are you running?
> 
> I'm running 3.0.4 .

There are even more recent versions.

-- 
Chris

On 20 Jan, 07:06, george <geo...@twig.tk> wrote:
> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>
> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
>
> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>
> George

George, try to increase the memory to 1gb, i hope u are stuck up with
device detections particularly VGA,
If you still facing the problem then boot with verbose mode. and see
where it stucks.

On 20/01/2010 03:38, george wrote:
> ITguy wrote:
>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>
>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>
>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>
>> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
>> 3.x. What version of VBox are you running?
>
> I'm running 3.0.4 . So the finger is pointing at VirtualBox rather than
> solaris 10 ?? I am running virtual box in this machine because its a
> Phenom 4-core with hardware virtualisation and it goes like a rocket. I
> am now copying this virtual machine on to a much slower pentium 4 and
> will conduct some tests to see if the problem happens on it.

There were stablity problems with VirtualBox versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.7 
inclusive and should be avoided. These problems were resolved in v3.0.8 
and later. The current VirtualBox release is v3.1.2. Check the 
VirtualBox forums for more details.

Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 2010-01-20 03:38:55 +0000, george said:
>
>> ITguy wrote:
>>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>>
>>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>>
>>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>>
>>> I used to see this under VirtualBox 2.x, but it seems to be fixed in
>>> 3.x. What version of VBox are you running?
>>
>> I'm running 3.0.4 .
>
> There are even more recent versions.
>
I've just upgraded to the most recent version ( 3.1.2 ) and it makes no 
difference.
G

Ravi wrote:
> On 20 Jan, 07:06, george<geo...@twig.tk>  wrote:
>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>
>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>
>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>
>> George
>
> George, try to increase the memory to 1gb, i hope u are stuck up with
> device detections particularly VGA,
> If you still facing the problem then boot with verbose mode. and see
> where it stucks.
Increasing to 1G made no difference. Switched to verbose mode which 
gives the same fail point as this google :
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2009-February/003083.html
That is : boot fails with: mouse80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1, 60/mouse@
George

george wrote:
> Ravi wrote:
>> On 20 Jan, 07:06, george<geo...@twig.tk> wrote:
>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>
>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>
>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>>
>>> George
>>
>> George, try to increase the memory to 1gb, i hope u are stuck up with
>> device detections particularly VGA,
>> If you still facing the problem then boot with verbose mode. and see
>> where it stucks.
> Increasing to 1G made no difference. Switched to verbose mode which
> gives the same fail point as this google :
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2009-February/003083.html
>
> That is : boot fails with: mouse80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1, 60/mouse@
> George
>
I think I have got rid of the hangs by unchecking the following tick box 
in the USB settings for the VM :
Enable USB 2.0 ( EHCI ) controller
G

Hi,

george wrote:
> george wrote:
>> Ravi wrote:
>>> On 20 Jan, 07:06, george<geo...@twig.tk> wrote:
>>>> It boots sometimes fine but 50% of the time all I get is :
>>>>
>>>> Sunos Release 5.10 Version Generic_141445-09 32-bit
>>>> copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>>
>>>> And there is hangs until I power reset the virtual machine.
>>>> I have allocated the virtual machine 750 Mb of memory, so I dont think
>>>> the problem is due to lack of memory.
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>
>>> George, try to increase the memory to 1gb, i hope u are stuck up with
>>> device detections particularly VGA,
>>> If you still facing the problem then boot with verbose mode. and see
>>> where it stucks.
>> Increasing to 1G made no difference. Switched to verbose mode which
>> gives the same fail point as this google :
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2009-February/003083.html 
>>
>>
>> That is : boot fails with: mouse80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1, 60/mouse@
>> George
>>
> I think I have got rid of the hangs by unchecking the following tick box 
> in the USB settings for the VM :
> Enable USB 2.0 ( EHCI ) controller
> G
> 
You should have tried Bing instead :)

/michael