From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 28 14:50:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@smarthost.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 336C2101 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D8DC1745 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s3SEo0Ak066553 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:00 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s3SEo0r3066539; Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:00 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:00 GMT Message-Id: <201404281450.s3SEo0r3066539@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: John Baldwin Subject: Re: kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest panic with VMWare Server on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Baldwin List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:50:01 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/186051; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin To: Steven Spence Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest panic with VMWare Server on boot Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:32:23 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --nextPart3286674.ppVH4CbPFD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday, April 21, 2014 01:45:10 PM Steven Spence wrote: > Output of "sysctl machdep.idle" > > machdep.idle: amdc1e > > This is from a 8.3-RELEASE-p15 box. Hummm. We really shouldn't be doing anything differently. However, we do a bit more (including a wrmsr) during idle halt on your machine. Can you build a stable/8 kernel with debug symbols in an 8.3 guest and capture the panic messages from booting that kernel? > 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? -- John Baldwin --nextPart3286674.ppVH4CbPFD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

On Monday, April 21, 2014 01:45:10 PM Steven Spence wrote:

> Output of "sysctl machdep.idle"

>

> machdep.idle: amdc1e

>

> This is from a 8.3-RELEASE-p15 box.

 

Hummm. We really shouldn't be doing anything differently. However, we do a

bit more (including a wrmsr) during idle halt on your machine. Can you build

a stable/8 kernel with debug symbols in an 8.3 guest and capture the panic

messages from booting that kernel?

 

> 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?

 

--

John Baldwin

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