Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:41:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: dougb@FreeBSD.org (Doug Barton) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash Message-ID: <201203301441.q2UEfqIE097518@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <4F74FA8C.8060108@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > >>> FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > >> > >> As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > >> it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer > >> version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have changed > >> since then. > >> > >> Doug > > > > So you're saying that he should have been using 8.3-RELEASE, then. > > That isn't what I said at all, sorry if I wasn't clear. The OP mentioned > 9.0-RELEASE, and in the context of his message (which I snipped) he > mentioned 8-stable. That's what I was referring to. And since both the poster and I made it clear that this doesn't seem to be a case of "it fails reliably on a machine of your choosing", just installing random other versions and hoping that it's going to cause a fail ... well, let's just say that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Or at least it's a recipe for a hell of a lot of busywork, busywork not guaranteed to return any sort of useful result. What you suggest is a fine solution for "My ASUS Sempron box fails when I do X!" -- in such a case, "Try a different version of FreeBSD" makes lots of sense. The problem is, in a virtualization environment, theoretically the virtual hosts are all the same sort of hardware (modulo any specific configuration changes of course), so when someone presents a problem that afflicts only a percentage of their VM's, it is important to keep in mind that you are not interacting with physical hardware, and that reinstalling an OS on a "problem" VM...? Well, let's just say I like real hardware better for many reasons. In the meantime, it's unrealistic to tell people to use supported releases, to wait fifteen months between releases, and then to criticize people complaining about problems with a supported release for "using old code". ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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