Virtualizing FreeBSD...

[Florian Heigl]

On 29.07.2013, at 21:50, Mark Felder wrote:

> I don't know what happened to my long reply I was writing but somehow I
> sent a partially written draft. Odd.
> 
> Look here for crazy crash info -- thread goes on for months with no
> resolve. VMWare refused to acknowledge the bug.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239694.html

Thanks. Good to be aware of.

> As far as alignment goes -- every OS you use non-local block storage has
> had step #1 "align your partitions/filesystems". That's been true for at
> least 20 years; I'm not sure why people would think this is a new
> development. The good news is that 9.x+ uses GPT by default so the hard
> work is done for you.

Ok, then I just gotta check whats wrong on my end.
And yeah, these days I tend to expect it'll be correct out of the box :)

> If you're having success on VMWare count yourself lucky -- I had a lot
> of people contact me off-list who couldn't publicly discuss this asking
> me for help as well. I still occasionally get an email asking if I ever
> fixed it

Would you mind sharing the VMWare bug ID?
Don't need it myself, since I don't have the error, but:
It would help people running into the same thing build up more pressure.


Florian