On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 21:31 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > In my instructions for GNU/Hurd in 2020 I had noted > Disable 'Nested paging', otherwise it DOES NOT BOOT! > > So, maybe it's worth looking at the main parameters of the VirtualBox VM: > - General: Operating System: Other/Unknown > - System: Motherboard: *Disable* all extended features (I/O APIC, EFI) > - System: Processor: *Disable* all extended features (PAE/NX, Nested VT-x) > [The latter is what I meant above.] > - System: Paravirtualization Interface: You can try different values > than 'Default'.
When I choose "Linux 2.4 (32-bit)" as the VM host type, those extended features are disabled by default. However I went through the System setting and turned off anything left such as hardware clock, got rid of the audio card and USB, and I tried a few different paravirtualization interface settings such as Minimal and Legacy but got the same results. > Do you have other VirtualBox VMs that work? Yes, I have other VirtualBox images that work fine.
