[SailfishDevel] Error starting VM

[Cathal Garvey]

Just bumping this one last time to see if anyone else has shared this 
problem and found a fix.

To recap, I'm using the latest SDK and the current "generic linux" 
version of VirtualBox, and the "acceleration" pane in "system" in 
Virtualbox is greyed out, so I cannot see any options there (someone 
else suggested acceleration might be to blame).

The problem is in booting the emulator VM. It displays several boot 
messages, the last of which is an error, then pauses there. I *can* 
successfully SSH in but the runlevel is indeterminate, and things seem 
to behave normally for a console linux session.

The messages displayed at VM boot are:

[    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files, 244244/1048575 blocks
[   12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address 
uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr

Any help that can be provided greatly appreciated. I'm using the latest 
VirtualBox on 64-bit Debian and the latest SDK, so it seems strange that 
it doesn't launch. I'm interested in Sailfish and strongly considering 
buying a Jolla, but I wanted to play around in the SDK first..

On 16/02/15 11:19, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> Neither SDK nor Virtual machine are running. If I close Virtualbox and
> re-open, the option is still greyed out. Perhaps my system doesn't
> support acceleration?
>
> On 16/02/15 11:08, kim at foder.dk wrote:
>>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>
>> The SDK must not be started, you cannot change the settings while the
>> image are running!
>>
>> /Kim
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/
>>>
>>> On 16/02/15 10:58, Chris Walker wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:16:53 +0100
>>>> kim at foder.dk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> This application failed to start because it could not find or load
>>>>>> the Qt platform plugin "xcb".
>>>>>
>>>>> I had this problem too, I think I had to disable something on the SDK
>>>>> in VirtualBox, I'm not sure but I think it was VT-x/AMD-V under
>>>>> system / acceleration.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> I've unticked that in the Emulator and that now runs.
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