From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 11:50:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F95D16A419 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:50:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4FE13C45A for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (p5480D9E4.dip.t-dialin.net [84.128.217.228]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo61) (RZmta 12.10) with ESMTP id o05979j8EAQIVj for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:16 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD8FE0AA2D3 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07287-03 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 18B2FE0AA2D1; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:14 +0200 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070914115014.GA7326@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4134.192.168.13.35.1189715449.squirrel@www.boosten.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4134.192.168.13.35.1189715449.squirrel@www.boosten.org> Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de X-RZG-AUTH: l30WrtbrzmfyRJtZ7/TtK2qIdZIgjE9K4Q55TXGhenj8TX5ShWTsXpHkg+TVrcUKjg== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:50:19 -0000 On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:30:49PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Does 6.2 still have that time- and ACPI issue in ESX3? No. > - disable ACPI in the VM This is not necessary with ESX 3 and FreeBSD 6.2 at least. > - kernel frequency at 100 hz This is recommended, I'm not sure if it's really necessary. There is one more setting on the ESX side that helps with timing problems (FreeBSD or Linux guests): change "Advanced Settings/Misc/Misc.Timer/MinHardPeriod" from 400 to 100. With "timing problems" I mean the guests system clock running too fast/slow here. I had this problem with RHEL4 guests, this setting fixed it for me. > - the vmxnet-driver (even the one from workstation 6) crashes freebsd, but > IIRC this driver can be replaced with e1000 in esx3. I've never bothered with vmxnet, I use le(4) on i386 guests and em(4) on amd64 guests. The only kernel module I found helpful is vmmemctl.ko. The good news is that VMware releases "VMware Tools" as open source, I hope this will improve the support for FreeBSD guests. http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ Uwe