Just thought I'd check it out again, to see if it MP under VMware now works, unfortunately no. dmesg below is from bsd, not bsd.mp unfortunately.
(Following is hand copied, 'cause I still haven't worked out how to serial console a vmware machine). cpu1 failed to become ready Stopped at Debugger+0x4: leave ddb{0}> ps PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS WAIT COMMAND 9 0 0 0 2 0x100204 crypto 8 0 0 0 2 0x100204 aiodoned 7 0 0 0 2 0x100204 update 6 0 0 0 2 0x100204 cleaner 5 0 0 0 2 0x100204 reaper 4 0 0 0 2 0x100204 pagedaemon 3 0 0 0 2 0x2100604 pfpurge 2 0 0 0 3 0x2100204 kmalloc kmthread 1 0 0 0 3 0x2000004 initexec swapper * 0 -1 0 0 7 0x2080204 swapper ddb{0}> trace Debugger(d069b999, d0a98c14, 2c0, 0) at Debugger+0x4 cpu_boot_secondary(d0a98c00, 11, d05fcc12, d0828f70) at cpu_boot_secondary+0x99 cpu_boot_secondary_processors(4458a4a7, 0, 0, d05fcc12, 0) at cpu_boot_secondary_processors+0x41 main(0, 0, 0, 0, 0) at main+0x70c ddb{0}> show registers ds 0x10 es 0x10 fs 0x58 gs 0 edi 0x831000 esi 0xd0a98c00 end+0x2f18b0 ebp 0xd0828f18 end+0x81bc8 ebx 0 edx 0 ecx 0xd06bbb84 kprintf_mutex eax 0x1c eip 0xd0448de0 Debugger+0x4 cs 0x8 eflags 0x246 esp 0xd0828f18 end+0x81bc8 ss 0xd0820010 end+0x78cc0 Debugger+0x4: leave ddb{0}> boot dump ------- OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #1: Wed May 3 13:58:50 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium II Xeon ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 1024KB L2 cache) 450 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real mem = 66613248 (65052K) avail mem = 53035008 (51792K) using 838 buffers containing 3432448 bytes (3352K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(2c) BIOS, date 04/21/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd880 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd880/0x780 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Intel 82371FB ISA" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1a00! 0xca000/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000! 0xe4000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82443BX AGP" rev 0x01 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA" rev 0x08 pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371AB IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR00, 1.00> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled) piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08: SMBus disabled vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware Virtual SVGA II" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) mpt0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c1030" rev 0x01: irq 9 scsibus1 at mpt0: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <VMware, Virtual disk, 1.0> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 4096MB, 4096 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 8388608 sec total sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <VMware, Virtual disk, 1.0> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 8192MB, 8192 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 16777216 sec total mpt0: target 0 Synchronous at 160MHz width 16bit offset 127 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 mpt0: target 1 Synchronous at 160MHz width 16bit offset 127 QAS 1 DT 1 IU 1 pcn0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "AMD 79c970 PCnet-PCI" rev 0x10, Am79c970A, rev 0: irq 11, address 00:50:56:9c:20:ca isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 biomask e765 netmask ef65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: CPU supports MTRRs but not enabled dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 dkcsum: sd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 -- Craig