Processor Issues?
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I also would try to disable all unneeded devices in the bios. I have 2 nehemias as well and have installed nehemias for others too. As geekgod said, they do work. The processor is not the issue.
Ok, now i created a virtual disk on another machine (on which pfSense works), installed it on the virtual disk (SCSI), copied the virtual disk to the other machine and used it there. In the VMWare BIOS, i turned off everything including IDE Controllers (as only the SCSI drive is there), all serial and parallel ports, etc.
Now pfSense boots from the SCSI drive, comes to the same point as before, only that now it's already installed. It turns on swap (last message i see) and then craps out. Faulted program now is always ldconfig, not newfs.
Any more ideas? I can't think of anything more - although i have to say i'm no expert…
Cheers,
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Then it's most probably a vmware nehemia issue ???
Can you test running pfsense at this machine directly not inside vmware?
Keep in mind, vmware server is beta. -
Oh, I sorta misread about the VMWare portion. For some reason GSX is borked. The good news is that Virutal Server works fine (atleast the beta does).
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Oh, I sorta misread about the VMWare portion. For some reason GSX is borked. The good news is that Virutal Server works fine (atleast the beta does).
Hm, then something must be wrong with my machine - was running GSX server 3.2.0 and upgraded to VMWare Server beta (hoping it could work better), but the effect seems to be the same - kernel panic :(
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Then it's most probably a vmware nehemia issue ???
Can you test running pfsense at this machine directly not inside vmware?
Keep in mind, vmware server is beta.I'm sorry, i can't run pfsense directly on the machine because it is remote and has a windows server running. All i can do is install and use virtual machines for running the firewall - are there any alternatives on windows?
Cheers,
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You might want to try the vmware player instead of vmware server but I don't think server and player can coexist on the same machine. However, if it runs in player and not in server it would be a proof that the bug is in vmware server beta.
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You might want to try the vmware player instead of vmware server but I don't think server and player can coexist on the same machine. However, if it runs in player and not in server it would be a proof that the bug is in vmware server beta.
I uninstalled the VMWare Server and installed the player instead - but didn't even come so far as to boot, Player didn't like Virtual machines created elsewhere, didn't boot neither from virtual disk nor from virtual cd drive :(
Now i installed GSX Server 3.2.1 - same as 3.2.0, kernel panics with the newfs process.
Is there any alternative for virtual machines on windows? I tried to install Virtual PC 2004 (now Microsoft), but it doesn't like the Nehemia processor.
Cheers,
Alex -
I'm running pfsense with vmplayer fine here (not on a nehemia though). This looks more and more like a vmware nehemia bug to me :(
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You might want to try the vmware player instead of vmware server but I don't think server and player can coexist on the same machine. However, if it runs in player and not in server it would be a proof that the bug is in vmware server beta.
I uninstalled the VMWare Server and installed the player instead - but didn't even come so far as to boot, Player didn't like Virtual machines created elsewhere, didn't boot neither from virtual disk nor from virtual cd drive :(
Now i installed GSX Server 3.2.1 - same as 3.2.0, kernel panics with the newfs process.
Is there any alternative for virtual machines on windows? I tried to install Virtual PC 2004 (now Microsoft), but it doesn't like the Nehemia processor.
Cheers,
AlexTry VMWARE Server. It's beta, but works well for me to do testing.
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I uninstalled the VMWare Server and …
Try VMWARE Server. It's beta, but works well for me to do testing.
I think i have tried all versions of VMWare by now - GSX 3.2.0 and 3.2.1, VMWare Server (Beta) and VMWare Player. Maybe things would work with VMWare Player (although i doubt that meanwhile), if i had a chance to build an image to run on that machine. Player can't make an image, and images made on another machine don't fit there since i can't even tell Player which NIC to bridge where.
pfSense runs so fine on my regular machine that i'm really eager to find a way to run it on the server… Where's the big difference in that section between m0n0 and pfSense? m0n0 seems to be fine on the server...
Cheers,
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m0n0wall == FreeBSD 4
pfSense == FreeBSD 6Major major major differences.
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m0n0wall == FreeBSD 4
pfSense == FreeBSD 6Major major major differences.
Ok, i didn't know that - must be a big difference indeed.
Now i tried to run pfSense in Virtual PC 2004 - no chance either. So this must be a FreeBSD / Emulation problem, i suppose… Will try plain vanilla FreeBSD in an emulated session on the Nehemia these days.
Cheers,
Alex -
Now i tried to run pfSense in Virtual PC 2004 - no chance either. So this must be a FreeBSD / Emulation problem, i suppose… Will try plain vanilla FreeBSD in an emulated session on the Nehemia these days.
Ok, tried the bootonly CD from FreeBSD, Release Version 6.0 - this one boots up fine on the Nehemia. So there must be some sort of pfSense - Virtual Machine - Nehemia problem - anything i can do to solve this issue?
Cheers,
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Send a copy of pfsense to vmware with your nehemia kernel panic. The server is beta and they will accept bugreports I think ;D
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Hi all,
I've got the same problem on a VIA EPIA M10000 running VMWare Server 1.0.0.
Any news with this?Booting with RC1 livecd iso image stops with the same kernel panic at newfs.
Already searched VIA and VMWARE forums for similar reports, there doesn't seem to be any.
I've tried already disabling Acceleration and "memory page trimming" in the VM - didn't work.
VMWare edition and Developer edition didn't work too.
I'll try to get the Embedded edition into a vmdk somehow (maybe dd it from a knoppix live cd onto the hard disk), I'll report back my results.
Marc