run/demo in VirtualBox

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello Thomas,

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:37:40PM -0500, Thomas Dundon wrote:
> I cannot get the basic demo to work inside my VM.  Here's my setup:
> 
>    - x86_64 machine running
>    - Windows 7 running
>    - VirtualBox 5.1.28 running
>    - Ubuntu 16.04
> 
> My process within the Ubuntu VM was:
> 
>    - Installed the various tools to build (genode-toolchain-17.05,
>    libsdl2-dev, etc)
>    - Ran git clone to get Genode 17.08
>    - Ran *./tool/create_builddir linux BUILD_DIR=../build*
>    - Changed *build.conf* to enable MAKE += -j4
>    - Ran *make run/demo*
> 
> Everything builds fine but nothing significant happens.  Here's the console
> output (post build):
> 
> using 'core-linux' as 'core'
> using 'ld-linux.lib.so' as 'ld.lib.so'
> using 'linux_timer_drv' as 'timer'
> spawn ./core
> Genode 17.08 <local changes>
> 
> 17592186044415 MiB RAM and 8997 caps assigned to init
> Warning: blocking canceled in entrypoint constructor
> <Demo just sits here until I press Ctrl-C>

this issue was discovered before and the progress is documented in the
following ticket of our issue tracker.

  https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/2521

Please give the mentioned commit a try. It fixes the issue for with
16.04 and linux kernel 4.4.0-93-generic as well as 4.4.0-96-generic.

  https://github.com/chelmuth/genode/commit/03a17e2cf61879cdfecb32df1484b3d058231a48

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