Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1

2005-09-24 Thread Colin Farley
eebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1 vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on the host o/s for the VM by manually placing: acpi.present = "false" m

Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1

2005-09-23 Thread Tom Pepper
vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on the host o/s for the VM by manually placing: acpi.present = "false" monitor_control.disable_apic = "TRUE" in the whatever.vmx config file, and restarting t

FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1

2005-09-23 Thread Colin Farley
I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD virtual machines on the production HP DL360 G4p servers we are using. In test I used a weaker ESX box and never had the issue. The problem is when rebooting the virtual machine it will sometimes hang at "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". This n