| From: | Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:15:49 -0800 (PST) |
:Hm... I just came across the following (year-old) thread and a more :recent blog entry regarding FreeBSD 5 and VMware, which suggests that :VMware's CMPXCHG instruction emulation may be at fault: : :http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=p05200f11ba562b901b75__128.113.24.47_%40ns.sol.net&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dvmware%2Bfreebsd%2B5.0%2B3.2%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dp05200f11ba562b901b75__128.113.24.47_%2540ns.sol.net%26rnum%3D4 : :http://weblog.bluepenguin.us/archives/2003/01/21/freebsd_50_under_vmware_no_go_updated.html It seems unlikely. There should be no uses of cmpxchg if you build a UP kernel to run under vmware. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>