Porteus

Porteus has a problem running in VMs. I tried Porteus LXqt V3.1 for 486 (as it's eventually going to run on a non-PAE machine). booting the iso in virtualbox gave a kernel panic with a sync error.
The solution was to disable VT-z/AMD-V in the virtual machine settings (Settings>System>Acceleration on Oracle virtualbox V5.0.2).

Just posting it here in case it helps anyone else.

Thanks for the info. But this is the first time in years that one reports such a difficulty with booting the porteus iso on vbox.

Though I do not remember using porteus lxqt edition in vbox.

francois wrote: ↑

24 Apr 2016, 11:37

Though I do not remember using porteus lxqt edition in vbox.

I know this is an old thread, but Google brought me here. This issue is still present in Porteus-LXQT-v5.0-x86_64. The solution, for me, was to increase the number of CPUs to at least 2.