When both the CONFIG_VMI kernel option and the related option in VMware workstation 6 are enabled then the guest system freezes at a random point during the boot process. This doesn't happen when the guest is running gentoo-sources-2.6.24* or vanilla-sources-2.6.25*. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
That's really odd, could you please try this under gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2? I can't think what patches might have made it into the gentoo-sources-2.6.25 to cause such an outcome... Could you please just state exactly which version of gentoo-sources-2.6.25 you used, and what version of vmware-workstation you have installed? Also, please provide the output from "emerge --info", since it's always very useful. Thanks... 5:)
I did some further testing and it seems that it also has to do with the host kernel. I tried several combinations of host/guest kernel and I got the following odd results: host kernel guest kernel works? gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 YES gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 vanilla-sources-2.6.25.17 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 vanilla-sources-2.6.25.17 YES gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r8 NO gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 YES gentoo-sources-2.6.26-r2 vanilla-sources-2.6.25.17 YES I cannot see any pattern in the above results. I'm using vmware-workstation-6.0.5.109488. Here's the "emerge --info" on the host: Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.26-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:04:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.2/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr esd exif fam fbcon firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gtk hal howl iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kerberos ldap libedit libnotify libsamplerate mad matroska midi mmx mp3 mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ocaml ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection samba session spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wavpack wifi x264 x86 xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ... and on the guest: Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:04:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.2/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri fam fbcon firefox fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg libedit libnotify midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection samba session spell spl sqlite sqlite3 ssl sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="vmmouse keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vmware vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Is this still happening with more recent versions of vmware-workstation and/or the kernel? If not, please resolve!
I have not been using vmware-workstation for the last few months but I did not experience this problem with newer kernels (>=2.6.27 if I remember correctly).
