Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p16 on ESX Server 2.5.1
vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best
practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on
the host o/s for the VM by manually placing:
acpi.present = false
monitor_control.disable_apic = TRUE
I'm having a problem with my FreeBSD virtual machines on the production HP
DL360 G4p servers we are using. In test I used a weaker ESX box and never
had the issue. The problem is when rebooting the virtual machine it will
sometimes hang at Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle. This
vmware's virtual implementation of acpi collides with freebsd. best
practice is to disable acpi altogether in the actual config file on
the host o/s for the VM by manually placing:
acpi.present = false
monitor_control.disable_apic = TRUE
in the whatever.vmx config file, and restarting the
