Running a FreeBSD 6.x guest on an ESX server may cause the following lines on the console:
This renders the system pretty unusable. The shape of the lnc driver is not that good (hence it has been deprecated from FreeBSD 7 and replaced by the le driver). Fortunately, VMWare ESX offers another network interface which works better in combination with FreeBSD. To switch network interface, follow these steps:
- Open the VMWare Infrastructure Client.
- Shut down the FreeBSD guest.
Installing VMWare ESX 3i (3.5.0) on a Hewlet Packard Proliant DL160 G5 could cause problems. It could hang at some stage where it says Enabling interrupts. This is because by default ACPI is enabled and causes problems.
This entry is quite simple: don't use SMP FreeBSD kernels on a VMWare virtual machine. This gives many problems, illustrated with this snippet from dmesg:
This application is not a breeze to get running on Gentoo. After emerging it, and executing the script /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl, it still complained with the following error when running vmplayer:
for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:
/opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl.
