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From: Steven Spence <freebsd@stratum16.com>
Subject: Re: kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest
 panic with VMWare Server on boot
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The following reply was made to PR kern/186051; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steven Spence <freebsd@stratum16.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest
 panic with VMWare Server on boot
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:45:10 -0600

 Output of "sysctl machdep.idle"
 
 machdep.idle: amdc1e
 
 This is from a 8.3-RELEASE-p15 box.
 
 Thanks,
 Steven
 
 On 04/21/2014 12:37 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
 > It appears to be crashing because VMWare is raising a privileged instruction
 > trap in the OS when it invokes 'hlt'.  That seems like a bug in VMWare.  There
 > isn't a way to disable 'hlt' from the loader prompt unfortunately.
 >
 > Can you show the output of 'sysctl machdep.idle' under your working kernel?
 >