Avoiding kernel panics when booting in VirtualBox

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grahamperrin
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Avoiding kernel panics when booting in VirtualBox

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If there's an unexpected reboot when attempting to boot GhostBSD in VirtualBox, you can probably avoid the issue in one of two ways:
  • boot in safe mode
  • set the virtual machine to use no more than one CPU.
Related: FreeBSD bug 254412 – emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions - Boot time crash - Sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock

A recording of a kernel panic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P2QfK5yqHYJ2SYzM8

Four frames from the recording:
  1. https://photos.app.goo.gl/UX3Awri3hZLAFZrXA
  2. https://photos.app.goo.gl/VfYP8YD3ryKn5C8r5
  3. https://photos.app.goo.gl/iTwbWeftrnXtZyGz5
  4. https://photos.app.goo.gl/QQshL8Up2YCMsLwX7
https://wiki.ghostbsd.org/index.php/Vir ... VirtualBox updated.
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