Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:28:20 +0200 From: Florian Heigl <florian.heigl@gmail.com> To: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualizing FreeBSD... Message-ID: <58B07564-EFD8-4912-822D-E7FF73B5E6C1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1375127404.6230.2955695.0E397D86@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <E1772891B3BA6EDA2EC23274@Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk> <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>
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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
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