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/nanobsd

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.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd

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

2013-07-15 Thread Ganesh Borse
Hi Olivier, Hard Disk is configured as IDE (IDE 1:1), vm settings. When freebsd image is booting in this VM, before getting the above error, following logs are displayed on boost console: ada0: VMWare Virtual IDE Hard Driver 0001 ATA-4 device ... ... ada0: Previously was known

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

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

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 project

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 woul prefere a more native FreeBSD

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 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 a way to get

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 described

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 add new disks without a reboot

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-18 Thread Lucian
On 18 December 2012 15:27, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com 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

FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Luke Bakken
da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD to force it to detect the new, larger

Re: FreeBSD as VMWare guest / disk resizing

2012-12-17 Thread Devin Teske
@QA1HWFBSD83201 ~]# camcontrol inquiry da0 pass0: VMware Virtual disk 1.0 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device pass0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Command Queueing Enabled In the VM settings I can increase the disk size but I can't seem to find the right command within FreeBSD

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 details when I get home

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, guy.hel...@gmail.com 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

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: 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 50,000+ SUSE

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 developeru...@gmail.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

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 ifconfig_em1=

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

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 developeru...@gmail.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

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 replicate

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 j...@freebsd.org 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

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

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 network

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

2012-05-30 Thread John Baldwin
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 hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful

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 j...@freebsd.org 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 ___

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 j...@freebsd.org 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.

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

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
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 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 Foster

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

2012-05-24 Thread dane foster
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 hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful

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

2012-05-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
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 hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly useful or concrete

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 13:54, dane

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

2012-05-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
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 very glad you've

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

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 this

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 abo...@averesystems.com 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

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

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
=0x1000 subdevice=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 VMWare hypervisor. From

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

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
. 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 providing

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

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
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 virtualization and Intel EPT / AMD RVI

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 file

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

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 submit a

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 helpful result without

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

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
than what my theory involved, though it is not quite possible to rule out some sort of corruption. Since I have to *assume* that many sites run some sort of FreeBSD on their VMware gear, given that VMware actually lists it as a supported version and VMware generally does things for profit, I am

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
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

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 version. 8.2

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 jgr...@ns.sol.net 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

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

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 in our

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 adr...@freebsd.org 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

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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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

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 Joe Greco
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. That having been said, if anyone has any brilliant ideas about what would constitute useful further steps to isolate this, I can look

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
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

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 hsela...@c2i.net 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

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/

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

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
- 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 explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: But here's where it gets weird. Three

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 is a disk

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 nec...@retena.com 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

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 hsela...@c2i.net 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

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 jgr...@ns.sol.net 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

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

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Bryant
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. They can't identify what the heck happens

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

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
892 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/tech/techAbstracts.html#Ahmad Perhaps, there is a bad

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 of

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

2012-03-29 Thread Jerry
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. They can't identify what the heck happens. We had a glimmer of hope with ESXi 5.0 fixing it because we never saw any crashes in the handful of deployments, but our dreams

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 atkin...@gmail.com 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

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, je...@seibercom.net 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 product

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 alan.l@gmail.com 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

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 much a crash as it is

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 f...@feld.me 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 Also, it's

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 amvandem...@gmail.com 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

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. 8.2 came out

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

2012-03-29 Thread Joe Greco
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 VMware host available directly to a guest. It'll take your LSI controller

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 jgr...@ns.sol.net 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

2012-03-29 Thread Jerome Herman
, 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 heads on the wall. VMWare

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

2012-03-29 Thread Adrian Chadd
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'd first look

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

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
, 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 this. They claim it's

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

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, scroll through

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 working

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 repeat

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 | less -p'Back

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: 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

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 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 for Xorg, but it seems

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 things seem

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 through console output (2) have

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 through console output The Apple

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 g...@unixarea.de 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 tried to install the vmware

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-06 Thread perryh
Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com 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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 04:12, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com 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

dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-05 Thread xinyou yan
the dhcpd can't start in vmware : Here is my /usr/local/etc/hpcdd.conf option domain-name ikfb.org; option domain-name-servers 192.168.4.100; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style none; subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 08:29, xinyou yan yxy@gmail.com wrote: the dhcpd can't start in vmware : Here is my /usr/local/etc/hpcdd.conf Is the file named hpcdd.conf or is that a typo? subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.4.129 192.168.4.254; option routers

VMware fusion / USB 2.0 issues.

2011-03-21 Thread Christopher Hilton
Good afternoon, I'm having a problem with a FreeBSD virtual machine on VMware fusion v3.1.2. Basically I get no USB 2.0 functionality. When I plug in a USB 2.0 mass storage device I get: uhub_reattach_port: port 1 reset failed, error=USB_ERR_TIMEOUT uhub_reattach_port: device problem

sysinstall with Fixit option and RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot caused kernel panic on Vmware machine!

2010-09-21 Thread Phan Quoc Hien
Hi everyone! I followed tut at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/ to install FreeBSD Root on ZFS using GPT on my VMWARE virtual machine. When I go to step Install FreeBSD to zroot kernel-panic appeared! My virtual machine detail: RAM: 512MB HDD: 10GB vmware workstation: 7.1.0 build

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