9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

[Larry Rosenman]

This is VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 booting off the release ISO.

Ideas?

On Tue, May 15, 2012 12:59 am, Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation?
>
> Since nobody has chimed in I felt I should:
>
> I use FreeBSD 9.0 routinely under VMWare Workstation without issue (my
> current VMWare Workstation version is 8.0.0 which is slightly out of
> date, 8.0.3 is available).
>
>> I tried to build a new VM on my new Lenovo W520 Laptop (Windows 7
>> Pro/64-Bit, 16G ram) and it gets to the Beastie menu, and times out,
>> then
>> dies.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> What can I provide?
>
> The version of VMWare Workstation you are running.
>
>> And, is there an issue with 9 in general, or could I install 8.3 and
>> then
>> source update it to 9 or 10?
>
> I build test VMs for 9 and do test upgrades from 6.x, 7.x and 8.x to 9
> using VMWare Workstation on my desktop and laptop without issue.
>


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