Just did an August 22nd snapshot install in a VM running under the free VMWare Server product. The host is Windows XP and the guest is intalled on a scsi disk (LSI Logic chosen during create) in the VM.
During boot there are a number of mpi messsages which do not seem to have any effect on the running system and are not repeated when doing things like dd from /dev/rsd0a, find / , and building from source. Checking the archives I see that this was crashing the vm at some point and the changelog indicates it was fixed so maybe these should just be viewed as warnings? -N dmesg: OpenBSD 4.0-beta (GENERIC) #1083: Mon Aug 21 21:24:02 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3.20 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,DS-CPL real mem = 267939840 (261660K) avail mem = 236683264 (231136K) using 3296 buffers containing 13500416 bytes (13184K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(8f) BIOS, date 04/17/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd880, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xe0010 (45 entries) bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd880/0x780 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1a00! 0xca000/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000! 0xe0000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x08 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 ignored (disabled) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR10, 1.00> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08: SMBus disabled vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware Virtual SVGA II" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) mpi0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c1030" rev 0x01: irq 9 scsibus1 at mpi0: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <VMware,, VMware Virtual S, 1.0> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 20480MB, 2610 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 41943040 sec total mpi0: target 0 Sync at 160MHz width 16bit offset 127 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 pcn0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "AMD 79c970 PCnet-PCI" rev 0x10, Am79c970A, rev 0: irq 11, address 00:0c:29:5e:5a:a3 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask e765 netmask ef65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled mpi0: xs cmd: 0x1b len: 0 error: 0x01 flags 0x1a8 mpi0: target_id: 0 bus: 0 msg_length: 8 function: 0x00 mpi0: cdb_length: 6 sense_buf_length: 0 msg_flags: 0x00 mpi0: msg_context: 0x00000058 mpi0: scsi_status: 0x02 scsi_state: 0x01 ioc_status: 0x0000 mpi0: ioc_loginfo: 0x00000000 mpi0: transfer_count: 0 mpi0: sense_count: 18 mpi0: response_info: 0x00000000 mpi0: tag: 0x0000 mpi0: xs error: 0x01 xs status: 2 dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a mpi0: xs cmd: 0x1b len: 0 error: 0x01 flags 0x188 mpi0: target_id: 0 bus: 0 msg_length: 8 function: 0x00 mpi0: cdb_length: 6 sense_buf_length: 0 msg_flags: 0x00 mpi0: msg_context: 0x0000005f mpi0: scsi_status: 0x02 scsi_state: 0x01 ioc_status: 0x0000 mpi0: ioc_loginfo: 0x00000000 mpi0: transfer_count: 0 mpi0: sense_count: 18 mpi0: response_info: 0x00000000 mpi0: tag: 0x0000 mpi0: xs error: 0x01 xs status: 2 rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 mpi0: xs cmd: 0x1b len: 0 error: 0x01 flags 0x1a8 mpi0: target_id: 0 bus: 0 msg_length: 8 function: 0x00 mpi0: cdb_length: 6 sense_buf_length: 0 msg_flags: 0x00 mpi0: msg_context: 0x00000065 mpi0: scsi_status: 0x02 scsi_state: 0x01 ioc_status: 0x0000 mpi0: ioc_loginfo: 0x00000000 mpi0: transfer_count: 0 mpi0: sense_count: 18 mpi0: response_info: 0x00000000 mpi0: tag: 0x0000 mpi0: xs error: 0x01 xs status: 2 mpi0: xs cmd: 0x1b len: 0 error: 0x01 flags 0x188 mpi0: target_id: 0 bus: 0 msg_length: 8 function: 0x00 mpi0: cdb_length: 6 sense_buf_length: 0 msg_flags: 0x00 mpi0: msg_context: 0x0000006b mpi0: scsi_status: 0x02 scsi_state: 0x01 ioc_status: 0x0000 mpi0: ioc_loginfo: 0x00000000 mpi0: transfer_count: 0 mpi0: sense_count: 18 mpi0: response_info: 0x00000000 mpi0: tag: 0x0000 mpi0: xs error: 0x01 xs status: 2