SMP and VMware 4

[Lars Eggert]

On 4/10/2003 10:18 PM, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> larse> has anyone booted a -current SMP kernel inside VMware 4?
> 
> I'm still thinking VMware does not support SMP (read: two or more CPU
> are visible inside VM), but my friend noticed me that there are SMP
> related menus in BIOS.
> 
> I doubt it still, but it worth trying... here it is:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Apr 11 13:50:50 JST 2003
>     root at proco.matatabi.or.jp:/pub/FreeBSD/src/sys/i386/compile/MEGAVALION2
> Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc03e4000.
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz (1993.23-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf28  Stepping = 8
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> real memory  = 134217728 (128 MB)
> avail memory = 126013440 (120 MB)
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0

VMware 4 dies her efor me, if I boot with an SMP kernel.

> BTW, VMware Workstation 4 does support ACPI (see relnotes).  However,
> if "FreeBSD" is selected as guest operating system in VMware Machine
> Control Panel, ACPI is disabled (see dmesg above).

I never get to where that'd matter with an SMP kernel.

Thank you very much for the information though. I've opened a support 
request with VMware, maybe something useful will come out of it.

Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse at isi.edu>           USC Information Sciences Institute
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