freebsd stable - Sep 2004 - FreeBSD 5.x under VMware ESX server.

Hello,

we recently someone approached us to look  at the possibility to run
FreeBSD 5 under VMware ESX server, since they had some machines running
with 4 allready they wanted to test out the newer versions.  But it
seems while 4.10 and earlier boots fine 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA-1 both
crashes a terrible death.

When booting with verbose logging it stops when doing something with
INT9.

bt0 using strict something, then it goes to
alot of errors like these

bt: ccb 0xd9688080 - error 4 ocured. btstat = 11, sdstat = 0
then ioapic0: routing ... down to

ioapic0: routing intpin 9 (ISA IRQ 9)  to cluster 0

and then crash.


On a normal boot it crashes at

Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to Settle
M

Any idea how to workaround this or are they stuck on FreeBSD 4 for now? 


Mvh/Best regards,

Arnvid L. Karstad

On Sep 5, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Arnvid Karstad wrote:
> Any idea how to workaround this or are they stuck on FreeBSD 4 for now?
I have in the past run FreeBSD 5.0 under VMWare workstation software.  
The clock didn't keep very good time.  FreeBSD 4.x had the same clock 
issue.  For the most part they both ran ok.  I don't know how this 
applies to the ESX server, though.