Re: How to create NanoBSD iso image to install NanoBSD on vmware machine?

2013-07-15 Thread Ganesh Borse
from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/nanoISO [ro]... Thanks On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Ganesh, > > > I am new to Nanobsd and trying to create an iso image which can be > > installed on vmware machine. > > > > I created an iso image usin

Re: How to create NanoBSD iso image to install NanoBSD on vmware machine?

2013-07-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Ganesh, > I am new to Nanobsd and trying to create an iso image which can be > installed on vmware machine. > > I created an iso image using the disk image > (/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.disk.image) generated according to steps > given in NanoBSD > How To <http://www.fre

How to create NanoBSD iso image to install NanoBSD on vmware machine?

2013-07-15 Thread Ganesh Borse
Dear Friends, I am new to Nanobsd and trying to create an iso image which can be installed on vmware machine. I created an iso image using the disk image (/usr/obj/nanobsd.full/_.disk.image) generated according to steps given in NanoBSD How To <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nano

Task bar missed when creating PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit VM in VMware Workstation Version 98.02 build-1031769

2013-05-20 Thread Chou, David J
Hi, I am trying to create a virtual machine of PC-BSD release 9.1 64 bit in VMware Workstation Version 98.02 build-1031769 based on PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso downloaded from ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9.1/amd64/PCBSD9.1-x64-DVD.iso in Windows 7 64 bits system. The screen resolution is

Re: VMware tools for FreeBSD

2013-05-08 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/8/13 7:09 AM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) > guest. > > I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools: > > - the linux one are working, but I wo

Re: VMware tools for FreeBSD

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Felder
If this is a production server operation VMWare will *only* support you running their list of supported FreeBSD versions and their official VMWare Tools. This means you'll often be left behind several releases with the most recent available being completely abandoned by the FreeBSD pr

VMware tools for FreeBSD

2013-05-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am running an ESXi 5.1 VMware server, with one FreeBSD (8.3) guest. I am trying to figure how to install the VMware tools: - the linux one are working, but I woul prefere a more native FreeBSD - should I install /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guest6d ? It fails with not finding vmware

FreeBSD on VMware ESXi with PCI Pass Through enabled

2013-03-28 Thread dweimer
Just curious if anyone has any good recommendations of settings for running FreeBSD under VMware ESXi 5.1 with PCI(e) pass through enabled. I have been doing some initial testing with a new motherboard processor and RAM. That I am hoping to be able to run 3 Servers on. The intended virtual

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Lucian
On 18 December 2012 15:27, Devin Teske wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: > Live resize (without reboot even) is something being worked on for the future > 10.x series. Looking forward to this, we can't offer cloud instances with FreeBSD until this happens. __

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Devin Teske
On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Luke Bakken wrote: >> You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. >> > > That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a > reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to &

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Luke Bakken wrote: You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Luke Bakken
> You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. > That's my main question - can a larger disk be detected *without* a reboot. On FreeBSD instances running within VMWare I have been able to add new disks without a reboot but, as I described below, have not found

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Devin Teske
It can be done but it's not easy and not pretty. You'll have to rewrite the partition scheme to grow *only* the last partition and then use growfs on the last partition to zero the new inodes within its newly defined range. You'll of course need to boot from another medium to do this. I usuall

FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Luke Bakken
Hello everyone - I'm looking for a way to get FreeBSD 8 / 9 to detect that an already existing disk has grown. I have FreeBSD running as a guest within vSphere ESX 5. Here is the output of camcontrol showing how the disks are detected within the OS: [root@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:40 -0500, wrote: Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 5 ee 60 16 0 1 0 0 Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy Sep 21 0

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-10-01 Thread guy . helmer
On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:36:04 PM UTC-5, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad > news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now > replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting deta

Re: VMware & Linux server users Data

2012-07-14 Thread Ryan Coleman
If you did your research in advance you'd realize you're in for a flame war. On 7/13/2012 9:48 AM, Edwin Abl wrote: Hi, Looking for the contact information of Linux server users across the USA and UK? Or VMware users globally? We have a segmented database of 50

VMware & Linux server users Data

2012-07-14 Thread Edwin Abl
Hi, Looking for the contact information of Linux server users across the USA and UK? Or VMware users globally? We have a segmented database of 50,000+ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users. We also have large databases of Microsoft SharePoint

Re: Problem with routing in VmWare VMS

2012-06-22 Thread Alexandre
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:13 PM, UNIX developer @ Google.com < developeru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I understud! > I remove from rc.conf this rows: > static_routes="clnet" > route_clnet="-net 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.10" > > new rc.conf: > ifconfig_em0=" inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" >

Problem with routing in VmWare VMS

2012-06-22 Thread UNIX developer @ Google.com
Thank you, Mark! All work! - Вы писали 22 июня 2012 г., 16:31:39: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:10:43 -0500, UNIX developer @ Google.com > wrote: >> now after reboot the problem still the same. >> ping -S 192.168.2.1 192.168.1.1 >> PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.2.1: 56 d

Re: Problem with routing in VmWare VMS

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:59:36 -0500, UNIX developer @ Google.com wrote: /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_em0=" inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_em1=" inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" gateway_enable="YES" static_routes="clnet" route_clnet="-net 192.168.2

Problem with routing in VmWare VMS

2012-06-21 Thread UNIX developer @ Google.com
Hi! I have problem with routing on FreeBSD. I have ESXi 5 host. In there is 5 VMs and one of them is a BSD. I need create router on BSD. I try to setting up it with this manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-routing.html but problem is still the same... I cant ping external network f

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to rep

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:11:11 am Mark Felder wrote: > So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a > state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about > getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over > a netw

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through the

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? > > > > We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU > VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using m

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using multiple CPUs in his video transcoding VMs. Unfortunately I can't give

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:13 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? correct, only one CPU in the VM ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
> > I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently > fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our > business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent > fix as much as anyone else :-) > > The re

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, You guys now absolutely, positively have enough information for a PR. It's still not clear whether it's a device/interrupt layer issue in FreeBSD, or whether vmware is doing something wrong with how it implements shared interrupts, or a bit of both.. Adrian On 24 May 2012 1

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I > certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses > FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as > anyone else :-) > > The reason I've hesita

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread dane foster
#x27;d be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I > certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses > FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as > anyone else :-) > > The reason I'

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
to get lost and honestly our business uses FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as anyone else :-) The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Fos

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
iate it if you and the other people who can reproduce this could work with the em/mpt driver people and root cause why this is going. I think having FreeBSD on vmware work stable out of the box without these kinds of tweaks is the way to go - who knows what else is lurking here.. I'm very v

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
t ... 0. Interesting. The obvious thing here is we are comparing a userland Vbox guest to a VMWare hypervisor. From what little I know concerning any of this, to me it sounds vaguely like an APIC, LAPIC, and IO/APIC bug. There are known bugs wrt to BIOS setting up IRQ routing incorrectly, and/or

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
ubdevice=0x8000 class=0x01 dev.mpt.0.%parent: pci0 dev.mpt.0.debug: 3 dev.mpt.0.role: 1 Very curious how 'irq 22 at device 22.0' and 'dev.mpt.0.%location: slot=22' all match with a '22'. The obvious thing here is we are comparing a userland Vbox guest to a VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/device.hints: hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking around and all of our VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Boyer
On May 21, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and > the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards > interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. > > I'm still trying to test thi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was able to recreate my cra

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
build of ESXi in the past that had a different setting for video memory when you selected FreeBSD? Another change people might want to do as suggested to us by VMWare Support: - Change CPU/MMU Virtualization to the bottom option -- "Use Intel VTx/AMD-V for instruction set virtualizatio

Installing VMware Tools on FreeBSD 9, amd64

2012-04-26 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I've installed the compat6x libraries and made a symlink to /lib for libc.so.6 as per some docs I found; however, the vmware tools installation is still failing with: Unable to copy the source file /usr/local/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/FreeBSD8.0-amd64/vmxnet.ko to the destination

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 3:59 PM, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >>> As a user, you can't win. If you don't report >>> a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure >>> out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it >>> but you don't

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Felder
Guys, The crash on my machine with debugging has evaded me for a few days. I'm still looking for further suggestions of things I should grab from the DDB when it happens again. Thanks for the help everyone! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticize

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
t; these may serve to help shed light on where the problem lies. The interesting thing is that I took it and looked at it and came to a conclusion that might have been wrong, though I think the trail of reasoning I used was itself reasonable, given my exceedingly small (one example of problem) samp

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a he

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:53:10 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: On the same vmdk files? "Deleting the VM" makes it sound like not. Fresh new VMDK files every time, and always thick provisioned. None of the other VM's, even the VM's that had been abused in this horribly insensitive manner of being pla

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and > > never moved? > > fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with > > our experience too. > > VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
We don't have any indications that before the crash processes will take unusual amounts of CPU. The only time there is high CPU usage is at the point where it does enter the crashed state and no longer seems to be able to communicate with the disk. I'm not sure this is the same bug but we'l

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and never moved? fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with our experience too. VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect the stability. Even

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > > It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically > > crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. > > It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, > > what technology,

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > >> > >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer >

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
isk - very important if you can't run sysctl because your disk IO has locked up!) to see what the current state of things. It's likely that the BSD mpt(4) and other storage drivers, and/or our interrupt handling code, is just slightly different enough to confuse the snot out of VMWare. I

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerome Herman
ted (Sorry, not possible in our production at this time, and we were hoping we could base some stuff on 8.3 for long term stability...) ESXi: Confirmed ESXi 4.0 - 5.0 has this problem. Haven't tested on others. History: Over the course of the last 2 years we've been banging our head

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, what technology, whether you're us

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
crashes now that I'm using > LSI SAS emulated controller. If it still crashes, we'll see what happens > after that with those loader.conf options enabled. Um, if I may, that's something completely different. VMDirectPath, or PCIe passthru, is making a hardware device on a VMwar

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested >> >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer >> version. 8.

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:52 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Yes, they offer Paravirtual

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > If we assume mpt is the culprit > Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > > version. And it's not so mu

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:53:02 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of their emulated storage controllers: http://static.usenix.org/events/atc11

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another pro

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:30 -0500, Mark Atkinson wrote: If this is an interrupt problem with disk i/o, then you might want to look into (DDB(4)) show intr show intrcount maybe show allrman Thank you! I really don't know what things we should be running in DDB to diagnose this and we wi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerry
ESXi 4.0 - 5.0 has this problem. Haven't tested on > > others. > > > > > > History: > > > > Over the course of the last 2 years we've been banging our heads on > > the wall. VMWare is done debugging this. They claim it's not a > > VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Atkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/2012 07:03, Mark Felder wrote: > Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I > came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no > idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see > something out

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
74769460 > cpu0: timer 246571507400 > Total 550242125892 > > Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Bryant
se some stuff on 8.3 for long term stability...) ESXi: Confirmed ESXi 4.0 - 5.0 has this problem. Haven't tested on others. History: Over the course of the last 2 years we've been banging our heads on the wall. VMWare is done debugging this. They claim it's not a VMWare issue. T

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: I explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: This is 100% identical to what we see, Joe! And we're so unlucky that we have this happen on probably a dozen servers, but a handful are the really bad ones. We've re

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? What does "wmstat -i" output? --HPS Here's a server that has a week uptime and is due for a crash any

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:24 -0500, Eduardo Morras wrote: Don't know about ESXi but on others VM Managers i can change the chipset emulation from ICH10 to ICH4. Can you change it to an older chipset too? Unfortunately there's no setting in the GUI for that but I'll keep looking to see

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:49:30 Joe Greco wrote: > > On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? > > We've only seen it happen on one virtual machine. That was a 32-bit > version. And it's not so much a crash as it

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
n the VM. I wasn't able to prove it. I tried a read-dd of the entire disk - passed, flying. I tried several things to duplicate the nightly periodic tasks where it seemed so prone to locking up. They all ran fine. But if I left the machine run, it'd do it again eventually. I explaine

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 16:03 29/03/2012, you wrote: Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Don't

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:16 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? Correct, we see both i386 and amd64 flavors crash in the same way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > > As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer > version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many thing

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 29 March 2012 15:42:42 Joe Greco wrote: > > Hi, Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? --HPS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
gone awry in the virtual machine, probably in the disk image, but I could not identify it without significant digging that I had no particular reason or inclination to do; since it appeared to be a VMware problem, the "reload it and be done with it" seemed the quickest path to resolution. Th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Thanks... __

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Thank you for the suggestion. We'll put it in our toolbox and see if it helps! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
then. The sad part is that VMWare's "supported FreeBSD versions" are a joke, and we've been trying to keep VMWare happy by only running "supported versions". I honestly don't think they even test. It's so stupid.

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:31:38 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: * have you filed a PR? No * is the crash easily reproducable? Unfortunately not. It's totally random. Some servers will "get the bug" and crash daily, some will crash weekly, some might seem to be fine but 3 months later hit th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Felder wrote: > Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen > my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: > > Overview: > > FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash > FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible i

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have chang

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, * have you filed a PR? * is the crash easily reproducable? * are you able to boot some ramdisk-only FreeBSD-8.2 images (eg create a ramdisk image using nanobsd?) and do some stress testing inside that? It sounds like you've established it's a storage issue, or at least interrupt handling for

Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
on at this time, and we were hoping we could base some stuff on 8.3 for long term stability...) ESXi: Confirmed ESXi 4.0 - 5.0 has this problem. Haven't tested on others. History: Over the course of the last 2 years we've been banging our heads on the wall. VMWare is done debugging

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread David Scheidt
On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: >>> man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' >> >> ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). >> However, I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: >> man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' > > ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). However, > I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may repeat my > question: How can I get console scolling wor

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Sascha Vieweg
On 11-04-09 17:17, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scro

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote: As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output man syscons | le

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Devin Teske
On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió: > >> On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and >>> I tri

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: > As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a > MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) > console: > > (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll throu

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Apr 8, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: > As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a > MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) > console: > > (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll throu

FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-08 Thread Sascha Vieweg
As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion 3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on the normal (startup) console: (1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console output (2) have a screen resolution of at least 800x600. Both t

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, April 08, 2011 a las 12:17:03PM +0200, Dimitry Andric escribió: > On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: > >I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and > >I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver >

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread David Demelier
On 08/04/2011 12:17, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My

Re: vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2011-04-08 10:42, Matthias Apitz wrote: I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My other VM runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1

vmware-tools-freebsd && "No drivers for x.org version: 7.6.5."

2011-04-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have FreeBSD 9-CURRENT up and running in a VMware Workstation 7.x and I tried to install the vmware-tools-freebsd of VMware to get the driver for Xorg, but it seems that X.org 7.6.5. is not supported. My other VM runs a 8-CURRENT with X.org 7.4_1 which works fine. Any idea how to solve

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 04:12, wrote: > Kevin Wilcox wrote: > >> If you're just using the 192.168.4.129 - 254 addresses >> I would change it to >> >> subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Shouldn't that be netmask 255.255.255.128? That's what I thought at first as well. Then I saw the r

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