On 02/05/10 07:27, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: >> Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs >> on VMware ESXi 3.5u4. After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk >> controller the VM just shuts off. The workaround is to change the disk >> controller to the BusLogic type. Still, it used to work up until last >> week. The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits >> that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073 >> >> I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs. This affects HEAD >> and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer. (I just >> worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/) I've >> attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it >> started. > > What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader? >
For what it's worth, I have two machines running ESXi 4.0 and haven't encountered this problem. It's possible this issue affects 3.5 only. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel FreeBSD -- The power to serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
