I've run into this issue as well in past versions. Set this in /etc/sysctl.conf kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:25 PM, André Stöbe <andresto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rodolfo Gouveia wrote: >> I have had this issue that time stops under my 5.3 AMD64 VM >> running on top of VMware ESXi 5. > > I had similar issues some time ago. > > After running into this two or three times I found some hints on the > FreeBSD forums, where several people were looking for answers to the > same behaviour: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31929 > > I ended up adjusting the "kern.timecounter.choice" sysctl, which > worked for me. > > There's now also a ESXi patch available from VMware. See KB2021185. > > Regards > André
