On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Nick H. <nh.mailingl...@beo.im> wrote:
> Further to my earlier very basic erro description, I was able to colelct
> some more debug messages from when the Kernel panic occurs.
>
> Could you give me some pointers of how to possibly fix this or how to
> file a bug report. Thanks.
>
>
> Here is the "trace" output:
>
> cpu_init(d0b73880,0,30,d0a466a0,0) at cpu_init+0x51
That corresponds to the lcr4() in this:
if (ci->ci_feature_sefflags & SEFF0EBX_SMEP)
lcr4(rcr4() | CR4_SMEP);
and indeed, that code was added in 5.3, support for the SMEP CPU
extension. It appears that that ancient version of vmware had that
bit set (incorrectly) in its cpuid emulation.
Last I checked, vmware 2 had reached its end-of-support period *YEARS*
ago. Wasting time on a broken and no longer supported emulator would
be just that: a waste of time. Good luck.
Philip guenther
