kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest panic with VMWare Server on boot

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR kern/186051; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: kern/186051: [vmware] [panic] FreeBSD 8.4+, 9.x+, 10.0 guest panic with VMWare Server on boot
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:37:41 -0400

 It appears to be crashing because VMWare is raising a privileged instruction 
 trap in the OS when it invokes 'hlt'.  That seems like a bug in VMWare.  There
 isn't a way to disable 'hlt' from the loader prompt unfortunately.
 
 Can you show the output of 'sysctl machdep.idle' under your working kernel?
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin