9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Wed May 16 19:03:10 UTC 2012


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 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?)?

Actually, that's already been fixed, and will first appear in 9.1.
I've written up what you can do to patch out the offending test in
the meantime:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VMWareBootupSpeed

mcl


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