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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2012 14:03:06 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Adam Strohl <adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com>
Subject:   Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation
Message-ID:  <20120516190306.GA8798@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <c073c75fe5da298181aed3acc2153ece.squirrel@webmail.lerctr.org>
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0"
> when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or
> default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)?

Actually, that's already been fixed, and will first appear in 9.1.
I've written up what you can do to patch out the offending test in
the meantime:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VMWareBootupSpeed

mcl



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