Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:50:11 +0000 From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: VMware and 8.4 known issues? Message-ID: <89955644-02C2-4C4B-A4DD-AE5C6B308DA4@lists.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <F579DFF7-B150-40A4-B494-BFC6014D5524@bway.net> References: <F579DFF7-B150-40A4-B494-BFC6014D5524@bway.net>
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On 09 Sep 2014, at 18:56 , Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> wrote: Hi, > I have about a dozen FreeBSD 8.4 VMs running on a pair of ESXi > (5.0.0, build 469512) boxes. Generally, I have not had any problems > with this configuration. However one particular VM, which is > running the same kernel and same VMware settings as the other VMs > has paniced twice in the past few months. >=20 > I do not have a core dump, but both times a message regading the > CD-ROM device was logged shortly before the panic: >=20 > Sep 9 08:50:56 shellvm kernel: ata1: WARNING - READ_TOC read data > overrun 18>12 I remember those from 2010. Not been running freebsd 8 in a long time. The best workaround I found back then was indeed to remove CDROM (and = for that matter also did the floppy;-) as much as possible from VMware. = I cannot remember if that was good enough to get entirely rid of it = anymore ( I think some devices maybe floppy still showed up ) but I have = never seen this after going to 9 and 10 certainly. =97=20 Bjoern A. Zeeb "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983
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