FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

Steve Polyack korvus at comcast.net
Tue Oct 14 13:20:52 PDT 2008


scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> |> 
> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> |> |> Jeremy,
> |> |> 
> |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> |> |> 
> |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> |> |> |> 	I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD 
> |> |> |> 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM.
> |> |> |> 	After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU 
> |> |> |> registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM 
> |> |> |> setup.
> |> |> |
> |> |> |Can you please download the 7.1-BETA2 ISO and try it instead?  There
> |> |> |have been changes to the FreeBSD boot loader between 7.0-RELEASE and
> |> |> |7.1-BETA2 which may improve things for you.  The 7.1-BETA2 ISOs are
> |> |> |available here:
> |> |> 
> |> |> 	The same behavior with 7.1-BETA2.
> |> |
> |> |I'm not sure what to do at this point, or what to tell you, since the
> |> |kernel can't even load.
> |> |
> |> |Are you installing this off of CD, and is the CD drive hooked up to
> |> |the PC via ATA/SATA (rather than USB or something else)?
> |> 
> |> 	It's a bit more complicated, since, for some reason the Vmware 
> |> client is unable to boot the VM from CD on the host server. It's 
> |> booting an ISO image on the client machine.
> |> 	I already read something saying that it's a known issue of the 
> |> ESXi.
> |> 	Without the virtulization layer, the amd64 CD boots without 
> |> problems in this machine. 
> |
> |Ah, so the truth comes out... :-)
> |
> |Have you brought this fact up with the VMware folks?  They're quite a
> |nice bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they provided a hotfix for you
> |for this problem.
>
> 	This will be my next step.
> 	I sent here first, once it's a boot loader problem, specific to 
> 64bits version of Fbsd. I thought someone could faced the same and came 
> with a howto to workaround.
>
> Thank you anyway. :-)
>
> - Marcelo
>
>   
Are you sure that you have chosen Other (64-bit) selected for the Guest 
OS type? I have never had an issue with using FreeBSD on ESXi.  
Currently running VMs include 6.3, 7.0, and 7.1-PRE.


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