{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VirtualBox 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. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-d4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}