Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:08:25 -0500 From: Colin Farley <Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1 Message-ID: <OFBFBB940F.B0752AC8-ON86257085.0073536F-86257085.0074214F@ecarecenters.com>
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I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD virtual machines on the production HP DL360 G4p servers we are using. In test I used a weaker ESX box and never had the issue. The problem is when rebooting the virtual machine it will sometimes hang at "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". This never happened on the test box and I have never encountered it before. Furthermore, if I use Vmotion (to move the virtual machine to a different ESX host) and bring the virtual machine up on another ESX server everything is fine and the virtual machine boots normally. Because of this I figured that it was an ESX problem and decided to put a support ticket in with them. They replied with this: "The particular "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" message you are getting with FreeBSD is a known issue with the FreeBSD system that occurs on physical systems as well. The work around for it is to edit your kernel config file with 'OPTIONS SCSI_DELAY=1000' and to rebuild and install the new kernel" To me this doesn't sound right, can anyone confirm? Thanks, Colin
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