From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 22:28:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 5CB0C16A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:28:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@blorp.com) Received: from stan.phonebites.com (stan.phonebites.com [209.133.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1A643D48 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:28:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@blorp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.phonebites.com [127.0.0.1]) by stan.phonebites.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651ADA9FCD9; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stan.phonebites.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (stan.phonebites.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38016-09; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (dsl2-63-249-108-31.cruzio.com [63.249.108.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by stan.phonebites.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA41A9FCAD; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:27:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <626F9C64-1841-401A-A4F5-69A81D090249@blorp.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Tom Pepper Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:27:54 -0700 To: Colin Farley X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at phonebites.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 22:28:03 -0000 vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on the host o/s for the VM by manually placing: acpi.present = "false" monitor_control.disable_apic = "TRUE" in the whatever.vmx config file, and restarting the virtual machine. read up on the vmware forums for some more information from yours truly on trying to beat freebsd into running on ESX. there's additional problems you'll run into w/r/t crappy smbfs performance, agent support, and some esoteric problems like nanosleep() calls eating CPU instead of actually idling. -t On Sep 23, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Colin Farley wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >