From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 21:51:19 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 C657E16A41F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:51:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com) Received: from visor.electric.net (visor.electric.net [216.129.90.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DE843D49 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Colin.Farley@ecarecenters.com) Received: from root by visor.electric.net with emc1-ok (Exim 4.24) id 1EJHvR-0000ck-VU; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:51:17 -0700 Received: by emcmailer; Sat, Sep 24 2005 14:51:17 -0700 Received: from [64.4.68.42] (helo=wpg1-notesmail.PRLOANS.LAN) by visor.electric.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1EJHvQ-0000cX-VD; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:51:16 -0700 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Colin Farley To: Tom Pepper X-MIMETrack: MIME-CD by Notes Server on WebMail/COMPUBank(Release 6.5.4|March 27, 2005) at 09/24/2005 04:51:12 PM, MIME-CD complete at 09/24/2005 04:51:12 PM, Serialize by Router on PRLUSA-NOTESMAIL/COMPUBank(Release 6.5.3|September 14, 2004) at 09/24/2005 04:51:14 PM Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:51:12 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Lotus Domino Web Server Release 6.5.4 March 27, 2005 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Status: Scanned by VirusSMART (s) 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: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:51:20 -0000 Thanks for your help, adding the two lines that you mentioned below fixed the problem. Thanks again, Colin -----owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org wrote: ----- To: Colin Farley From: Tom Pepper Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: 09/23/2005 05:27PM cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"