At the moment I'm resurrecting an old MAC laptop to install VM's on so I can install my VM within that VM and then I'll at least have access to my databases so I can offload the data and port to another OS, but ideally I'd just be able to run Oracle Linux VMs on my AMD rig I'm really quite surprised there's so many issues with AMD (from my googling at least), I never thought to check the compatibility of VirtualBox with AMD before purchasing and I really wish I would have at this point I've had an account forever but I'm pretty sure it's free to sign up and grab any of the software they provide.Īppreciate you looking at this, hopefully someone will be able to explain this and provide a fix/workaround. I tried to post a link but apparently my virgin account is too fresh to do so, you can google 'oracle software delivery cloud' and it should be pretty obvious which one is the correct one The Oracle Linux ISO I had to go to the oracle delivery cloud for that.

I really need Oracle linux (5.2) to work for a guest as the VM I am trying to access has some rather important information stored on it (databases).Ĭheers, Tubby Posts: 7 Joined: 20. I did manage to install a linux mint guest but haven't tried other *NIX variants.

Best I can tell this is related to the AMD chip, but I can't imagine there's no workaround in order to get a linux guest booting. The best I've been able to do is figure out that there's certainly a problem with Oracle Linux 5.2 (downloaded a fresh ISO to try and install a VM and it hangs on install after hitting the NMI part). I've been googling for hours with no luck. All the windows guests boot fine, but the Oracle Linux VM refuses to boot, currently getting an error message that 'Kernel panic - not syncing: nmi watchdog'. I copied all the files from my old PC and added the VMs in Virtualbox (latest version). I upgraded my PC and the new one is running an AMD Ryzen 3800x and Linux Mint 19.3 (decided to update the OS with the new system). The situation is that I had a linux mint 19.1 system with an INTEL processor running a number of virtualbox VMs, one of them is running Oracle Linux 5.2. First post here so it's going to be a bit of a hairball, please forgive me any details I can provide I'm happy to do so but I'll probably need a nudge in the right direction to provide proper details.

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