Same Here. ESXi U2 and FreeBSD 7 on AMD64 (Other 64-bits).
Working Flawless. Vmware Box Setup: Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2 . 2x 1GB DDR2 2x 500GB SATA2 Disks 1x 3COM 100mbit PCI Ethernet 1x HP PCI-Exp Giga Ethernet. No issue by now. -----Mensagem original----- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Steve Polyack Enviada em: terça-feira, 14 de outubro de 2008 18:10 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeremy Chadwick; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Todor Genov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeremy, > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > |> > |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> |> Jeremy, > |> |> > |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > |> |> > |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> |> |> I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD > |> |> |> 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. > |> |> |> After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU > |> |> |> registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM > |> |> |> setup. > |> |> | > |> |> |Can you please download the 7.1-BETA2 ISO and try it instead? There > |> |> |have been changes to the FreeBSD boot loader between 7.0-RELEASE and > |> |> |7.1-BETA2 which may improve things for you. The 7.1-BETA2 ISOs are > |> |> |available here: > |> |> > |> |> The same behavior with 7.1-BETA2. > |> | > |> |I'm not sure what to do at this point, or what to tell you, since the > |> |kernel can't even load. > |> | > |> |Are you installing this off of CD, and is the CD drive hooked up to > |> |the PC via ATA/SATA (rather than USB or something else)? > |> > |> It's a bit more complicated, since, for some reason the Vmware > |> client is unable to boot the VM from CD on the host server. It's > |> booting an ISO image on the client machine. > |> I already read something saying that it's a known issue of the > |> ESXi. > |> Without the virtulization layer, the amd64 CD boots without > |> problems in this machine. > | > |Ah, so the truth comes out... :-) > | > |Have you brought this fact up with the VMware folks? They're quite a > |nice bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they provided a hotfix for you > |for this problem. > > This will be my next step. > I sent here first, once it's a boot loader problem, specific to > 64bits version of Fbsd. I thought someone could faced the same and came > with a howto to workaround. > > Thank you anyway. :-) > > - Marcelo > > Are you sure that you have chosen Other (64-bit) selected for the Guest OS type? I have never had an issue with using FreeBSD on ESXi. Currently running VMs include 6.3, 7.0, and 7.1-PRE. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3520 (20081014) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3520 (20081014) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"