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--></style></head><body class="hmmessage">Thanks for your help Ritesh! Hopefully some digging into less obvious logs might reveal the cause. It's a pity that VB images aren't as "plug and play" as commonly held. :/<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 February 2015 11:55:39 GMT+00:00, Ritesh Patel <rit78@msn.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br /><br /><div>> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:40:46 +0000<br />> From: cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me<br />> To: devel@lists.sailfishos.org<br />> Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Error starting VM<br />> <br />> Just bumping this one last time to see if anyone else has shared this <br />> problem and found a fix.<br />> <br />> To recap, I'm using the latest SDK and the current "generic linux" <br />> version of VirtualBox, and the "acceleration" pane in "system" in <br />> Virtualbox is greyed out, so I cannot see any options there (someone <br />> else suggested acceleration might be to blame).<br />> <br />> The problem is in booting the emulator VM. It displays several boot <br />> messages, the last of which is an error, then pauses there. I *can* <br />> successfully SSH in but the runlevel is indeterminate, and things seem <br />> to behave normally for a console linux session.<br />> <br />> The messages
displayed at VM boot are:<br />> <br />> [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed<br />> systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files, 244244/1048575 blocks<br />> [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address <br />> uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr<br />> <br />> Any help that can be provided greatly appreciated. I'm using the latest <br />> VirtualBox on 64-bit Debian and the latest SDK, so it seems strange that <br />> it doesn't launch. I'm interested in Sailfish and strongly considering <br />> buying a Jolla, but I wanted to play around in the SDK first..<br />> <br />> On 16/02/15 11:19, Cathal Garvey wrote:<br />> > Neither SDK nor Virtual machine are running. If I close Virtualbox and<br />> > re-open, the option is still greyed out. Perhaps my system doesn't<br />> > support acceleration?<br />> ><br />> > On 16/02/15 11:08, kim@foder.dk wrote:<br />>
>>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/<br />> >><br />> >> The SDK must not be started, you cannot change the settings while the<br />> >> image are running!<br />> >><br />> >> /Kim<br />> >><br />> >>> Hi,<br />> >>> That pane is greyed out in Virtualbox, for me. :-/<br />> >>><br />> >>> On 16/02/15 10:58, Chris Walker wrote:<br />> >>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:16:53 +0100<br />> >>>> kim@foder.dk wrote:<br />> >>>><br />> >>>>>> This application failed to start because it could not find or load<br />> >>>>>> the Qt platform plugin "xcb".<br />> >>>>><br />> >>>>> I had this problem too, I think I had to disable something on the SDK<br />> >>>>> in VirtualBox, I'm not sure but I think it was VT-x/AMD-V under<br />>
>>>>> system / acceleration.<br />> >>>><br />> >>>> Thanks.<br />> >>>><br />> >>>> I've unticked that in the Emulator and that now runs.<br /><br />The error messages displayed, ie.:<br /><br />> [ 0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed<br />> systemd-fsck[62]: system: clean, 23245/262144 files, 244244/1048575 blocks<br />> [ 12.297269] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address <br />> uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr<br /><br />don't appear to have any bearing on your issue [1][2].<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Ritesh Patel<br /><br />[1] <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18055593/how-to-solve-fast-tsc-calibration-failed-issue-that-occurs-on-boot-in-virtualbox" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18055593/how-to-solve-fast-tsc-calibration-failed-issue-that-occurs-on-boot-in-virtualbox</a><br />[2] <a
href="http://fintastical.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/virtualbox-piix4smbus-error.html" target="_blank">http://fintastical.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/virtualbox-piix4smbus-error.html</a><br /><br /><br /></div> </div>
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