Re: DragonFly hung up in Vmware

[Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had some disappointing results with VMWare this weekend. 5.2.1 crashed
vmware outright. Supposedly disabling apic in vmware will fix this. After
trying to install 5.2.1 (this is a unix environment for my wife,
DFBSD is to much in flux), I tried installing Xandros. It worked fine
until after I'd recompiled VMWare tools for their kernel and was loading
the kernel modules - at which point VMWare crashed again.

Prior to this VMWare had always worked great, except when under heavy
I/O load.

				-Kip





On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>
> :Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>     It seems unlikely.  There should be no uses of cmpxchg if you build a UP
> :>     kernel to run under vmware.
> :
> :Hm... this isn't emitted by the compiler under normal circumstances?
> :According to [1], this is a 486+ instruction.  Then again, it could be
> :like, say, xlat (which I've never seen a compiler emit).
>
>     cmpxchg is not emitted by the compiler under any circumstances other
>     then if you specify it in inline assembly.  It is a very specialized
>     instruction.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>