{"id":810,"date":"2008-05-04T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T18:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2008-05-04T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T18:17:47","slug":"sun-xvm-virtualbox-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/04\/sun-xvm-virtualbox-is-released","title":{"rendered":"Sun xVM VirtualBox is released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a> 1.6 is out. Note that now you can use Mac OS X and Solaris as a host platform. Naturally, having Mac OS X support excites me.<\/p>\n<p>I tried installing a Ubuntu 8.04 server guest. Found a tiny issue &#8211; 64-bit guests aren&#8217;t supported yet :( So I pulled in the 32-bit ISO, and that installed just fine. Note that PAE support for guests exist now, and this is a good step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Sun&#8217;s building an <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualbox.org\/\">OpenxVM<\/a> community, which currently focus on xVM and xVM VirtualBox. It also harnesses technologies like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/07\/open-service-tag-released-under-gplv3\">Open Service Tag<\/a>. All in all, I think a lot of MySQL users should be interested in virtualization, as there is a growing amount of hardware out there with many, many cores available for use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Installing Ubuntu 8.04 server and getting past the kernel not booting<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is more of an Ubuntu problem, than a VirtualBox problem, but I faced an issue:<\/p>\n<pre>The kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU\r\n0:6\r\nUnable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU<\/pre>\n<p>Turns out, the problem was the wrong kernel was installed. Rescue Ubuntu, and install <tt>linux-generic<\/tt>. For reference, look at <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+question\/23343\">Unable to boot 8.04 Alpha 3 Server install on laptop<\/a> and also the <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?p=4813109\">fix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Sun%20xVM%20VirtualBox%20is%20released%21&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F04%2Fsun-xvm-virtualbox-is-released&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I spoke on MySQL: The Database for Web 2.0, and the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2976,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/09\/30\/oracle-linux-ships-mariadb","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":4},"title":"Oracle Linux ships MariaDB","date":"30\/9\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I can\u2019t remember why I was installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 on Oracle VirtualBox a while back, but I did notice something interesting. It ships, just like CentOS 7, MariaDB Server 5.5. 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