FreeBSD6.0 and VMWare 5.0.. No go

[Joao Barros]

On 9/2/05, Pierre Ulisch <pierre at ulisch.net> wrote:
> 2005 9月 2 金曜日 01:47、Antony Mawer さんは書きました:
> > On 1/09/2005 11:15 PM, Edwin Brown wrote:
> > > This morning I tried to install FreeBSD6.0 under VMWare 5. I got
> > > the following message when it was extracting the base into \
> > > directory:
> > >
> > > Panic: duplicate free of item 0xc1c5a210 from zone 0xc143f000(g_bio)
> > >
> > > cpuid=0
> > > KDB: enter: panic
> > > [thread pid 3 tid 100034 ]
> > > stopped at kdb_enter+0x2b: nop
> > > db>
> > >
> > > Is this a known issue?
> >
> > I've seen it reported before, but I don't recall seeing a solution. I
> > hope this is a show-stopper for 6.0, as a number of places I know of use
> > VMware for testing and development with FreeBSD...
> 
> I just finished installing FreeBSD6.0-Beta3 under VMWare 5. The installation
> completes flawlessly, if you boot from the CD image, then install everything
> via FTP instead of using the CD. Installation from CD causes the same panic
> you mentioned. I haven't noticed any other problems, X is up and running,
> everything I tested so far worked as it should.
> I hope this helps a bit :)
> 
>   Pierre

For what it's worth I'm running FreeBSD on VMWare 5 back from 5.3,
updated to 6.0 Beta 2 recently.
As I'm using a real partition, I dual boot FreeBSD either real or
under VMware, either with nVidia or VMware drivers. No hickups :)

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Joao Barros