Processor Issues?

hoba · Feb 20, 2006, 11:12 AM

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.

Demerzel · Feb 20, 2006, 1:47 PM

@hoba:

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

hoba · Feb 20, 2006, 8:25 PM

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 :(

sullrich · Feb 20, 2006, 8:42 PM

@Demerzel:

@hoba:

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

Try VMWARE Server. It's beta, but works well for me to do testing.

Demerzel · Feb 20, 2006, 9:14 PM

@sullrich:

@Demerzel:

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,
Alex

sullrich · Feb 20, 2006, 9:47 PM

m0n0wall == FreeBSD 4
pfSense == FreeBSD 6

Major major major differences.

Demerzel · Feb 21, 2006, 1:32 AM

@sullrich:

m0n0wall == FreeBSD 4
pfSense == FreeBSD 6

Major 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

Demerzel · Feb 21, 2006, 12:00 PM

@Demerzel:

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,
Alex

hoba · Feb 21, 2006, 12:47 PM

Send a copy of pfsense to vmware with your nehemia kernel panic. The server is beta and they will accept bugreports I think ;D

ecce · Jul 27, 2006, 4:22 PM

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