From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 29 20:28:26 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 1149E43F; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:28:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florian.heigl@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-x233.google.com (mail-bk0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4008:c01::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A58B2E8F; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f51.google.com with SMTP id ji1so2150491bkc.24 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:28:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=rEVwmri/1RFivpaCB7Um2rY06P0GC1KoKL374n4bJkY=; b=jPVPqW10fKk1GAZ1elP6eEoYgQ+3IdQcQGgIf1wvLWpbnRqHQTG8RUi4Xljl/40GUW vf3IBRsePGm2frV+YH3xnb9v+rQh16ER536Twas3o2PAdYo8D29iIhRHOd9cgbAXaNWY 34c30cIztZCJHSNRGfUlPK+hhHscttqsPbbxuJGzeI12gpR3/BofsMYbSfXaPQFOG+1N JrMFurxSEW4K85CWsMLa6eel3HRQa5CUqHjIXZFaUdLQWkx05WgSLY2gLmc5rKvSMft3 VUS3ucL+qKtKkT7+xIa0UQDB59hVtvikwvPxwjtLLF0eek1E/3ko7OoBXqRUOx8gaMiQ DNEw== X-Received: by 10.205.22.196 with SMTP id qx4mr8619312bkb.156.1375129703471; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp100.intern.blutmeer.de.10.168.192.in-addr.arpa (ppp-46-244-188-139.dynamic.mnet-online.de. [46.244.188.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id if11sm16576513bkc.15.2013.07.29.13.28.21 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Florian Heigl In-Reply-To: <1375127404.6230.2955695.0E397D86@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:28:20 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <58B07564-EFD8-4912-822D-E7FF73B5E6C1@gmail.com> 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> <1375127404.6230.2955695.0E397D86@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: Mark Felder X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org 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 20:28:26 -0000 On 29.07.2013, at 21:50, Mark Felder wrote: > 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 Thanks. Good to be aware of. > 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. Ok, then I just gotta check whats wrong on my end. And yeah, these days I tend to expect it'll be correct out of the box :) > 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 Would you mind sharing the VMWare bug ID? Don't need it myself, since I don't have the error, but: It would help people running into the same thing build up more pressure. Florian