Just to note, my earlier hardware is tied up with some other work. I moved my testing to another hardware with Intel NVMe instead of the earlier HGST one. But the issue was seen on both Intel and HGST, the only two vendors' NVMe we have in-house. Both servers are Cisco UCS C-240.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695780 Title: On VMware ESXi with PCI passthru enabled for Intel NVMe Ubuntu Xenial VM does not boot Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My set up is a Cisco UCS c240 server with an Intel NVMe 1.6TB drive running VMware ESXi version 6.0U2. NVMe device is made available as a PCI passthru device and not claimed by ESXi kernel. This NVMe device when added to a Ubuntu 16.04.2 running kernel version 4.4.0-62 and above does not boot, kernel does not boot fully and hangs for while before the VM powers off. However, running kernel versions 4.4.0-43, 4.4.0-53, 4.4.0-57, and 4.4.0-59 everything works as expected. Earlier versions of the kernel also do not work. Here is a short list of the I tested with 4.4.0-31 -> kernel panic (different issue) 4.4.0-43 -> works 4.4.0-53 -> works 4.4.0-57 -> works 4.4.0-59 -> works 4.4.0-62 -> fail 4.4.0-64 -> fail 4.4.0-75 -> fail 4.4.0-77 -> fail 4.8.0-51 -> fail ~# cat /proc/version_signature Ubuntu 4.4.0-75.96-generic 4.4.59 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1695780/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
