Is it me or does FreeBSD (12.1 amd64) hang when I manually snapshot it in VSphere 6.7?

[Doug McIntyre]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:31:29AM +0200, rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote:
> subject says it all, basically.
> 
> The system becomes totally unresponsive and has to be power-cycled.


Not just you.

Specificly, the behavior I see comes about only when Snapshot with a
copy of the virtual machine's memory is done. With this box unchecked,
there are no problems.

I suspect some interaction with the kernel and the openvm-tool set.

open-vm-tools-nox11-11.0.1_3,2

I'll upgrade to the latest

open-vm-tools-nox11-11.1.0,2

and see if it does it.

No change with that version (after a reboot).

$ freebsd-version -kru
12.1-RELEASE-p5
12.1-RELEASE-p5
12.1-RELEASE-p5

vCenter server = 6.7U3g
I think I'm a little behind on the hypervisor
VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138


So, workaround I guess is to not snapshot the memory, just the disk snap.
But still, it shouldn't do that.