2Mark Szkolnicki:
> Understood that 5.0.51 is a developmental release Valery.
Yes, it's a development version, but not less stable than 5.0.6. I planned to update the OS/2 VBox port to a newer version. 5.0.51 is not a final one, but some intermediate version. I'll probably try to update it to more newer version.
> I actually saw the notice about v5.0.51 that Martin posted here. (He should be a reporter, as he has a nose for news <smile>)
Yes, it's possibly, Martin is guilty for a leakage

But anyway it's good as it could gain more attention to the project, so it is ok.
> I am testing with ArcaOS v5.0.1 installed on this machine, with the kernel updated to 14.201_SMP. eCS v2.2 is also installed on this machine on a separate partition, but has not been used for the testing, as of yet. ACPI is at the latest released level (3.23.08) on both partitions.
AMD-V/VT-x is not supported on IBM kernels so far. You need an OS/4 kernel to use HW virtualization in VBox. PSD can be any, but note that newer ACPI.PSD are incompatible with OS/4 kernels (AN just disables all CPU cores. Any hacking with it won't help, so OS/4 devs gave up on patching ACPI.PSD for working on OS/4 kernel). So, you'll need os2apic.psd or os4apic.psd, or earlier versions of ACPI.PSD for use with OS/4 kernel.
Also, as you have "brand new" 3.23.08 ACPI.PSD, could you please run this test:
http://gus.biysk.ru/os4/test/timerTest.html (Please, redirect the output to file, we need about 200 iterations of this test. This is a high resolution timer test. It is interesting to know if they fixed a hi-res timer bug in 3.23.08. It is still present in 3.23.07.)
> In regards to "Guru Mediation" screen, I have no idea as to what you are referring to. I have included the screen that comes up with the Windows XP information presented. If I have some idea as to what your referring to, and how to get it, I will include that as well.
"Guru meditation" is a VBox panic error. It should write it to the console (if you start VBox from OS/2 window), and in VBox VM log. VBox stores the VM log in Logs\VBox.log in each VM subdirectory. Yes, as far as I can see, you have AMD-V/VT-x enabled in your VM. Why did you so? It is disabled by default, and displays a warning in case you enabled it and your system lacks required API's and features. So, disable it, and it should work.
> BTW AMD-V/VT-X is indicated as "enabled" by default (see attached). However, the "invalid setting detected" message at the bottom when moused over, indicates that the current kernel doesn't allow enablement of hardware virtualization.
Yes, that's what I meant above. VBox warns you that your configuration is incorrect. So, disable AMD-V/VT-x checkbox and it should work.
2Pete:
>>... The link just "leaked" from the bug tracker when I gave it to Pete for testing.
> Guilty as charged, my Apologies.
Yes, I did not planned to distribute this version, but no problem
