VirtualBox-3.0.4-50677-Win.exe

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 10 17:59:01 UTC 2009


Ted Hilts wrote:

> Everything went well until I got Ubuntu installed in VirtualBox and
> concluded the installation after which I booted Ubuntu and got the
> following message:
> 
> Starting up...
> PANIC: CPU too old for this Kernel
> 
> It took me a while to figure out what had happenned.
> The XP machine CPU is:
> Dell Computer Corp
> OpticPlex GX260
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
> 2.391 MHx
> 2.00 GB RAM

See: http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/faqs.jsp

What is the speed supposed to be, above?  The FAQ says 1.5GHz.  I would have 
thought that even the oldest GX260 was running at far more than 2.391MHz 
(that seems more like the speed of my second PC-clone, back around 1990).  
So if it's really 2.391 GHz, it should be enough.
-- 
derek






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