From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 21:08:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A036716A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com) Received: from ranger.electric.net (ranger.electric.net [216.129.90.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4153543D46 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com) Received: from root by ranger.electric.net with emc1-ok (Exim 4.24) id 1EIumf-0001Rr-UB for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:08:41 -0700 Received: by emcmailer; Fri, Sep 23 2005 14:08:41 -0700 Received: from [64.4.68.42] (helo=wpg1-notesmail.PRLOANS.LAN) by ranger.electric.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1EIume-0001RW-UM for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:08:40 -0700 To: stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build V70_M2_07222004 Beta 2NP July 22, 2004 Message-ID: From: Colin Farley Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:08:25 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on PRLUSA-NOTESMAIL/COMPUBank(Release 6.5.3|September 14, 2004) at 09/23/2005 04:08:39 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Status: Scanned by VirusSMART (s) Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:08:42 -0000 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