Re: FreeBSD 5.x under VMware ESX server.

Same problem is in 5.3-Beta-3


On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 21:43:25 +0200 - Arnvid Karstad <arnvid_at_karstad.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we recently someone approached us to look  at the possibility to run
> FreeBSD 5 under VMware ESX server, since they had some machines running
> with 4 allready they wanted to test out the newer versions.  But it
> seems while 4.10 and earlier boots fine 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA-1 both
> crashes a terrible death.
> 
> When booting with verbose logging it stops when doing something with
> INT9.
> 
> bt0 using strict something, then it goes to
> alot of errors like these
> 
> bt: ccb 0xd9688080 - error 4 ocured. btstat = 11, sdstat = 0
> then ioapic0: routing ... down to
> 
> ioapic0: routing intpin 9 (ISA IRQ 9)  to cluster 0
> 
> and then crash.
> 
> 
> On a normal boot it crashes at
> 
> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to Settle
> M
> 
> Any idea how to workaround this or are they stuck on FreeBSD 4 for now? 
> 
> 
> Mvh/Best regards,
> 
> Arnvid L. Karstad
> 
> 
> 
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Mvh/Best regards,

Arnvid L. Karstad