Sculpt EA On VirtualBox

[John J. Karcher]

Actually, while the problems at SourceForge were delaying the mailing 
list, I solved part of my problem.  Details below...


On 03/01/2018 11:14 PM, John J. Karcher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have downloaded, built, and begun testing Sculpt EA, following the 
> instructions linked to in the 18.02 release notes.  Everything went well 
> during the build process.
> 
> Since I primarily run everything I do in VirtualBox (and don't have the 
> recommended hardware anyway), I created a VM as close to the 
> recommendations as possible.  It booted fine from a virtual CD, the 
> system came up using the VESA framebuffer driver, the mouse worked, and 
> I was able to follow the instructions until I got to the part about 
> storage.  Unfortunately, there are no "<device>" nodes under 
> "<block_devices>" in "/report/drivers/block_devices".
> 
> I have the VM set up with a "SATA" controller and a single virtual 
> drive.  Has anyone tried this?  Do you have any hints on how to diagnose 
> what is going wrong?

Once I switched the "Chipset" setting to "ICH9", it found the drive, and 
I was able to continue.

> Also, I modified the config to use wired networking (using a virtual 
> Intel-based NIC), but I couldn't think of a way to easily test whether 
> it is working or not.  (I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but 
> I appreciate any hints.)

Unfortunately, I am not having luck with the network card.  I have tried 
all of the available Adapter Types, but none of them work.  I get 
messages in "/report/log" like these:

For Intel 82540EM:

[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:3.0 8086:100e (rev 02) IRQ 09
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82540em
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI BIOS has not enabled device 00:3.0! 
Updating PCI command 0003->0007
[drivers -> platform_drv] Error: runtimne -> nic -> nic: assignment of 
PCI device 0:3.0 failed phys=0xdc018000 virt=0x1000
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI device 00:3.0 latency timer is unreasonably 
low at 0. Setting to 32.
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] bus_addr = e2000000 len = 20000
...
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] snprintf not implemented
[drivers -> platform_drv] IRQ override 9->9 trigger mode: LEVEL, 
polarity: LOW
[drivers -> platform_drv] 0:3.0 uses IRQ, vector 0x9, non-maskable


For Intel 82543GC (all the same, except):

[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:3.0 8086:100e (rev 02) IRQ 09
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82543gc


For Intel 82545EM (all the same, except):

[runtimne -> nic -> nic] Found 00:11.0 8086:100f (rev 02) IRQ 0b
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] using driver 82545em
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] PCI BIOS has not enabled device 00:11.0! 
Updating PCI command 0003->0007
[drivers -> platform_drv] Error: runtimne -> nic -> nic: assignment of 
PCI device 0:11.0 failed phys=0xdc088000 virt=0x1000
...
[runtimne -> nic -> nic] bus_addr = e2420000 len = 20000
...
[drivers -> platform_drv] 0:11.0 uses IRQ, vector 0xb, non-maskable


FWIW, VirtualBox doesn't seem to give any way of tweaking things at the 
IRQ level.

This is closer to the hardware than I usually get these days.  Is there 
anything I can try?

  Thanks!
-- 
   John J. Karcher
   devuser at ...544...