Bug 19991

Summary:	VMware partition access broken in mid-june with kernel/sys update
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Matthew Whalen <dakota>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Akinori MUSHA <knu>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Matthew Whalen 2000-07-17 20:30:00 UTC

	My home system, built last on June 13, works properly, but
	my work system (rebuilt on July 14) has a problem with VMware.
	I've been told by another user that this problem began for
	him when he rebuilt his OS and kernel in mid-June. VMware
	gives an "Abort Trap" message with vmmon receiving a
	SEGV when powering on the virtual machine configured for
	access to a raw partition.  Access to a virtual disk in
	the filesystem still works properly.  This appears to
	likely be a kernel issue.

Fix: 

None known.
How-To-Repeat: 
	With current kernel, configure VMware to book from a physical
	disk partition and power on.  I will gladly provide any
	additional information if given instructions on how to get
	the data.

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-07-18 09:25:43 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->knu

vmware2 is knu's port.  Even if he isn't the one to fix whatever 
is causing the problem in-kernel (if that's really where the problem 
lies), he's still a good person to drive the PR. :-)

Comment 2 Brian Somers 2000-07-18 18:34:39 UTC

> Synopsis: VMware partition access broken in mid-june with kernel/sys update
> 
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->knu
> Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh
> Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 18 01:25:43 PDT 2000

Recompiling vmware2 fixed this here.

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !

Comment 3 Akinori MUSHA freebsd_committer

2000-07-18 20:14:31 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Rebuild and reinstall emulators/{vmware,rtc} and try again. 

You have to do that everytime you update the kernel, in case 
the kernel update includes interface changes. 

Hint: such port as vmware and rtc includes kernel modules.

Comment 4 Akinori MUSHA freebsd_committer

2000-08-18 16:41:25 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Timed out.  Thanks for the report, and please report us again 
when/if you are troubled with the latest version of the port.