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Subject: Re: VMWare, FreeBSD 5.2
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Jason Boudreault wrote:
 > I just downloaded and installed FreeBSD 5.2 on VMWare Workstation 4.0,
 > on boot (even from cd) it crashes unless I boot into safe mode.
 > Someone in an irc room mentioned I should forward this info here.

Open the .vmx file that describes your vmware virtual machine (in 
notepad) and add this line to it:

monitor_control.disable_apic=TRUE

It seams like that is a vmware issue, and the company will fix it in a 
next release.