We've also run into this with VMWare ESX 3.5i and both the 8.04 and 8.04.1 (installer) kernels. Adding 'clocksource=acpi_pm' as mentioned in the forums thread, fixed it for us. See also:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007020 Without the workaround we were seeing all sorts of bizarre and often fatal problems. Tim thinks the kernels in -proposed may also fix this but I wasn't able to test this yet. ** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Ubuntu server freeze when running more than one cpu in VMware ESX 3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
