Bug 27404

Summary: FreeBSD-4.3 crashes in VMware
Product: Base System Reporter: hans <hans>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description hans 2001-05-17 09:10:00 UTC 
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE crashes in the initialization of the lnc0
network interface.  The error message is "VMware Workstation PANIC:
BUG F(562):1647 bugNr=4935".  Pointers in the net suggest that the
problem has to do with an 32 bit register mode in the Lance ethernet
controller which is unsupported by VMware.  Looking at the CVS logs,
I could not find any recent changes regarding the Lance code.

How-To-Repeat: 
Install FreeBSD-4.3 in a VMware virtual machine, boot.
Comment 1 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-12-03 00:07:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Does this still occur for you with a more recent -stable? I think 
there was some problem like this caused by some interaction with 
the "pcn" driver, but that should have been fixed before 4.3-RELEASE.
Comment 2 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-12-20 01:01:18 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed


Submitter says 4.4-RELEASE now works fine as a guest OS within 
VMware 3 for Windows. It is likely that the "pcn" driver was to 
blame for the original problem, and that issue has been resolved.