9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

[Larry Rosenman]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 10:04 am, Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 5/16/2012 8:12, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Ok, I'm just impatient.  I let it sit, and it eventually came up.
>>
>> Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set
>> hw.memtest.tests="0"
>> when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or
>> default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)?
>>
>
> FWIW this seems odd/unique to your setup.
>
> I see no such delay under any VMWare product, though I have not yet
> upgraded to Workstation 8.0.3 from 8.0.0.
>
I believe this is due to the 8G of memory I put on it. (I like to build
big VM's.

It's directly proportional to the size of the VM.

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