From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 22:50:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FDE8E73 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (mx1.sbone.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:130:3ffc::401:25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC22D36E for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EB4325D37C3; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99CF5C77036; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zUi04453q6xq; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31:cabc:c8ff:fecf:e8e3] (orange-en1.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31:cabc:c8ff:fecf:e8e3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5C896C77035; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: VMware and 8.4 known issues? From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:50:11 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <89955644-02C2-4C4B-A4DD-AE5C6B308DA4@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: To: Charles Sprickman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: freebsd-stable Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:50:00 -0000 On 09 Sep 2014, at 18:56 , Charles Sprickman 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