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Cc: vsilyaev@mindspring.com
Subject: VMware on FreeBSD - crash with SMP systems?
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 22:58:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I've been playing with Vladimir's excellent vmware compatibility stuff
under -current and have definitely noticed that it dies reliably on
SMP systems - I've talked with 2 others now who were able to run
vmware only when using a UP kernel, otherwise the error always is:

*** VMware internal monitor error ***

NullGate on IRQ. gate=0x68

Please report this problem via ... etc etc.

I guess the one giant lock didn't save us after all, Vladimir! :-)

Anyway, JFYI - I'm still amazed at seeing NT boot on another
FreeBSD/4.0 single CPU machine so please don't think I'm
complaining. :)

- Jordan


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