From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 29 19:50:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D4C89C for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:50:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE8032BEC for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E837212EE for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:50:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:50:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=40nOskHRZUaCX2TpRt301AV2olo=; b=e4c +8dAVgtLZM3Nw1WWlYd953QSZw7HhNnMa4lUSHYI0kkKpaXpJTXBYkYawiNHSMcr VKxDpKU7DOiVN8KCdVQn03xVsVAWViAKvKiJTXZRUL8crUur3DIeViCtp+JoFPIq pNOuyygOAD/MKz7laO/j3x+MROek+UETsax/S2QM= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5236BB01E9F; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:50:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1375127404.6230.2955695.0E397D86@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: UwV+UUt2OVAuC2Flm5UeMNIIW9xASrhtrFAutCqWBexg 1375127404 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-23e62cd3 In-Reply-To: <4175937E-67BB-4A29-AC13-81ABFBC19E03@inoc.net> References: <91400827-DCA1-4B2F-AC6F-3287E0C85600@gmail.com> <1375125021.26149.2939727.6C668A92@webmail.messagingengine.com> <51F6C03A.3050508@postboks.org> <4175937E-67BB-4A29-AC13-81ABFBC19E03@inoc.net> Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD... Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:50:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:50:08 -0000 I don't know what happened to my long reply I was writing but somehow I sent a partially written draft. Odd. Look here for crazy crash info -- thread goes on for months with no resolve. VMWare refused to acknowledge the bug. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239694.html As far as alignment goes -- every OS you use non-local block storage has had step #1 "align your partitions/filesystems". That's been true for at least 20 years; I'm not sure why people would think this is a new development. The good news is that 9.x+ uses GPT by default so the hard work is done for you. If you're having success on VMWare count yourself lucky -- I had a lot of people contact me off-list who couldn't publicly discuss this asking me for help as well. I still occasionally get an email asking if I ever fixed it.