Installing in VirtualBox PANIC 64 bit

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First time installing Haiku.

I used the haiku-r1beta4-x86_64-anyboot.iso image to install to VirtualBox 6.1 on a 64 bit Linux machine:

$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit

On startup, I get:

*** PANIC ***
64-bit kernel requires a 64-bit CPU.
Press key to reboot.

Any suggestions? I thought I did indeed have 64-bit hardware.

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You probably need to set the architecture somewhere before booting (remember this from long ago), should be something in the menu when you create your system.

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Are you getting the error on the host or the guest?

  1. You need to have virtualization enabled in your computers BIOS. On Intel it is called VT-x and AMD calls it AMD-V, but different BIOS vendors can use different names (like Virtualization).

  2. Make sure you have selected a 64-bit version of version template in VirtualBox Manager (Select your Haiku virtual guest machine → Settings → General → Basic → Version and set it to something 64-bit, like Other/Unknown (64-bit). This should enable point 3, but double check to be sure.

  3. Enable virtualization on the VirtualBox guest machine (Select your Haiku virtual guest machine → Settings → System → Acceleration → Enable VT-x/AMD-V).

  4. No other application can be active that uses VT-x/AMD-V at the same time VirtualBox is running.

Edit: The error message seems to be from the Haiku guest. So the guide above should fix your problem.

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Thanks both.

I now have a bootable system to play with.

I’d been following the instructions here:

https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/virtualbox/

Issue was that at step1: ‘Creating a virtual machine’, I needed to choose
Type: Other
Version: Other/Unknown (64 bit)

rather than simply Other/Unknown.

Seems obvious but somehow I just skipped past it.

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That was it :slight_smile: Running Haiku mostly on bare metal (and sometimes virtual, but switched from VirtualBox to VMWare after Windows came around)

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That guide do not mention the difference between setting up a 32-bit and a 64-bit guest machine.

We need to specify what kind of guest operating system we are going to install. This is helpful in the pre-configuration of virtual machines – it applies default settings for supported OS’s. For Haiku, we are going to choose “Other” for operating system type and “Other/Unknown” for version:

This should be changed to something like:

We need to specify what kind of guest operating system we are going to install. This is helpful in the pre-configuration of virtual machines – it applies default settings for supported operating systems. For Haiku, set “Type” to “Other”. For a 32-bit Haiku installation set “Version” to “Other/Unknown”, or for a 64-bit Haiku installation set it to “Other/Unknown (64-bit)”:

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Great catch-up! I was a little discouraged by the architecture post because I thought 64-bit was enabled by default :sweat_smile: