[SailfishDevel] Sailfish OS Emulator and Windows 8

[christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch]

Hi Michal

By way of comparison, how is the SDK VM doing? As you have not  
mentioned it yet, I guess it is working normally.

Does the VBox.log file (on your host) give any clues?

Grüsse

Chris

Zitat von "Michal Prevratil" <michal.prevratil at hotmail.cz>:

> Hello,
> thank you for your replies.
>
> I am sure that i have enough RAM - 8 GB (but using just 2 GB in the  
> emulator, also tried more and less than 2 GB). I am using VirtualBox  
> 4.2.12.
>
> When I start the emulator from Qt Creator there are 3 different cases:
>
> a) Emulator works OK, able to ssh in it, able to move with the  
> cursor in the emulator
> b) Emulator boots up but screen stays black (Host + H does not  
> work), able to ssh in it, able to move with the cursor in the  
> emulator on the black screen, does not happen very often
> c) Emulator boots up and freezes, screen is black (Host + H does not  
> work), unable to ssh in it (able to found but unable to connect it),  
> unable to move the cursor, after a while Qt Creator shows green  
> emulator icon and says that the emulator is not running
> In one try the emulator also ran from case a) to case c).
> There is log from booting:
>
> [0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
> [2.922339] EXT3-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of  
> unsupported optional features (240)
> [2.954863] EXT2-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of  
> unsupported optional features (244)
> [4.791476] systemd[1]:  
> [/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journal.service:22] Failed to parse  
> capability bounding set, ignoring: CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE  
> CAP_SYS_PTRACE CAP_SYSLOG CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL CAP_CHOW  
> CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH CAP_FOWNER CAP_SETUPID CAP_SETGID
> systemd-fsck[46]: platform: clean, 20816/128000 files, 227235/511999 blocks
> [8.884085] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address  
> uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
>
> I have not changed any VirtualBox settings except the emulator's RAM.
>
> Thank you
> Michal
>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 06:56:28 +0300
> From: jarko.vihriala at jollamobile.com
> To: devel at lists.sailfishos.org
> Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Sailfish OS Emulator and Windows 8
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>     Hello,
>
>       We don't officially support Windows8 on the alpha SDK but it's in
>       the works. In general the Emulator VM depends on the
>       characteristics of the VirtualBox setup on the host. Do you have
>       enough RAM, do you have VirtualBox 4.2 or newer (I think we
>       officially support 4.1 onwards tho).
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>       When the emulator freezes, can you still ssh into it (i.e. using
>       cygwin or equivalent : ssh -i ~/.ssh/mer-qt-creator-rsa -p 2223
>       root at localhost) ?
>
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>       thanks, Jarko
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>       On 05/01/2013 09:50 PM, Michal Prevratil wrote:
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>               Hi,
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>               I would like to ask if anybody got to work Sailfish SDK
>               with Windows 8? I am asking because of my problems with
>               emulator. After booting up it seems like freezed (tried
>               Host + H, not working) but sometimes it boots up normally
>               and works ok. Is there any workaround?
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>               Thank you
>
>               Michal
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