Feature #13022
closedWant method to globally disable HMA
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Description
At present, it is only possible to run a hypervisor under the illumos kernel if it integrates with the HMA framework. This is causing problems for people who want to run Virtualbox on AMD. We could implement a switch via /etc/system
to allow disabling HMA.
Related issues
Updated by Andy Fiddaman almost 2 years ago
- Subject changed from Want way to globally disable HMA to Want method to globally disable HMA
Updated by Andy Fiddaman almost 2 years ago
- Related to Bug #12809: VirtualBox 6.1.8 errors attempting to start VM added
Updated by Andy Fiddaman almost 2 years ago
For testing on OmniOS using virtualbox and vagrant from the OmniOS extra repository.
As root (skip the first line if the extra.omnios
publisher is already configured, although it won't do any harm to re-assert it)
pkg set-publisher -O https://pkg.omnios.org/r151034/extra extra.omnios pkg install vagrant virtualbox
As non-root:
mkdir bento cd bento vagrant init bento/debian-10.4 vagrant up
Expect this to fail on an AMD box (or on Intel when bhyve or KVM is already running).
Now, as root:
echo set hma_disable = 1 > /etc/system.d/hma init 6
and try again (as non-root):
cd bento vagrant up vagrant ssh vagrant destroy
Updated by Andy Fiddaman over 1 year ago
Kindly tested for me by Volker A. Brandt on an AMD machine:
"Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8431"
Using OmniOS r151034 with Virtualbox 6.1.12
[20:15:19] <v_a_b> OK, now everything works as expected. Summary: Without hma_disable=1, the VBoxHeadless will dump core. With hma_disable, the vagrant debian box will come up and work fine: [20:15:22] <v_a_b> vagrant@debian-10:~$ uname -a [20:15:22] <v_a_b> Linux debian-10 4.19.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2+deb10u1 (2020-06-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux [20:15:22] <v_a_b> vagrant@debian-10:~$ uptime [20:15:22] <v_a_b> 19:15:04 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 [20:27:01] <v_a_b> For giggles, I also tested oracle-8.2 and freebsd-12.1 -- both work fine. [20:29:44] <v_a_b> I now have three "VBoxHeadless" procs running, everything is stable.
Updated by Electric Monk over 1 year ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit be4662198f3d57350960479f8997432537cfd6a5
commit be4662198f3d57350960479f8997432537cfd6a5 Author: Andy Fiddaman <omnios@citrus-it.co.uk> Date: 2020-08-31T17:29:22.000Z 13022 Want method to globally disable HMA Reviewed by: Patrick Mooney <pmooney@pfmooney.com> Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org> Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>