vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best
practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on
the host o/s for the VM by manually placing:
acpi.present = "false"
monitor_control.disable_apic = "TRUE"
in the whatever.vmx config file, and restarting the virtual machine.
read up on the vmware forums for some more information from yours
truly on trying to beat freebsd into running on ESX. there's
additional problems you'll run into w/r/t crappy smbfs performance,
agent support, and some esoteric problems like nanosleep() calls
eating CPU instead of actually idling.
-t
On Sep 23, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Colin Farley wrote:
I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD virtual machines on the
production HP
DL360 G4p servers we are using. In test I used a weaker ESX box
and never
had the issue. The problem is when rebooting the virtual machine
it will
sometimes hang at "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle".
This
never happened on the test box and I have never encountered it before.
Furthermore, if I use Vmotion (to move the virtual machine to a
different
ESX host) and bring the virtual machine up on another ESX server
everything
is fine and the virtual machine boots normally. Because of this I
figured
that it was an ESX problem and decided to put a support ticket in with
them. They replied with this:
"The particular "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle"
message you
are getting with FreeBSD is a known issue with the FreeBSD system that
occurs
on physical systems as well.
The work around for it is to edit your kernel config file with
'OPTIONS
SCSI_DELAY=1000' and to
rebuild and install the new kernel"
To me this doesn't sound right, can anyone confirm?
Thanks,
Colin
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