SMP and VMware 4

[Lars Eggert]

On 4/11/2003 12:51 AM, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
>>real memory  = 134217728 (128 MB)
>>avail memory = 126013440 (120 MB)
>>Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
>>IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
> 
> larse> VMware 4 dies her efor me, if I boot with an SMP kernel.
> 
> Which CPU did you use?  I found that (thanks to my colleague :-)
> if host PC has Pentium Xeon 2.8Ghz, VMware panics with FreeBSD
> 5-current SMP kernel (no SMP works pretty well) with following messages:
> 
> 	*** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***
> 	VMM fault: regs=0x2f9c, exc=14, eip=0x81a6c, addr=0xffc00010
> 
> 	(.. and lots of message which suggests to report this problem ..)

The box has two 2.4GHz Xeons, so it sure looks like VMware has a bug 
when the host box uses Xeons. And I can second that a non-SMP kernel 
works fine.

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