From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 14:41:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7164A16A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:41:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F52743D1D for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 54667 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2004 14:41:20 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 2 Oct 2004 14:41:20 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 16:41:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <415B40E0.5030708@optonline.net> <415D8687.7040905@optonline.net> <415E1BDB.4020203@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <415E1BDB.4020203@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410021641.19902.4711@chello.at> cc: bsdfsse Subject: Re: Are there step-by-step VMWare instructions? (giving up) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:41:23 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 October 2004 05:09, bsdfsse wrote: [...] > The only time I got it to run was with a 5.2-Release installation with > networking disabled (following Christian's docs). Every other > configuration resulted in losing access to the hard-drive as soon as I > hit the VM's "Power On" button. Curiously I tried to install VMware on an other, faster machine. The slow machine was a P3-850MHz 440BX chipset and a SiI 0680 with 2 gvinum mirrored hdds in UDMA133 mode - worked w/o problems. I moved the data over to the faster XP2800+ KT600 chipset with VIA 8237 controller w/ 2 gvinum mirrored hdds (ad0/ad1) in UDMA133 mode and a Promise PDC20269 with 2 hdds (ad4/ad6) in UDMA133 mode. I observed similar symptoms: read and write DMA timeouts on the faster machine. After the guest OS had started I got lots of timeouts until the system is hard locked. All VMware data on ad6. / and /usr on the ad0/ad1 mirror. I will try to find out more on this and pr results when I have some more sparetime. /var/log/messages output: Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171871667 Oct 2 06:28:24 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=171872247 Oct 2 06:28:30 matrix010 kernel: ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=170673789 Oct 2 06:28:35 matrix010 kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA no interrupt but good status Oct 2 06:28:40 matrix010 kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=170674433 [...] Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXr4P09WjGjvKU74RAkCAAJ9v8ekiuSFSPzW/PmA1x0Fb/NryVgCggUKz aq16VmtQ/efQ17ommNq6y4I= =zemb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----