Am 11.09.2012 21:14, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 09/11/12 12:06 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
I tried two different CentOS 6 VMs. Both have the latest standard kernel (2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64). Both run perfectly fine on one of the other VMware hosts still running ESXi 4.1.0 build 702113. On build 800380, both display the GRUB menu alright but freeze immediately afterwards, emitting the message
PANIC: early exception 0d rip 10:ffffffff81038879 error 0 cr2 0
I'd file a bug report with vmware.
Well, yes, I'm working on that. It's a tedious process trying to convince VMware support that I really have bought support.
Meanwhile I'd like to understand what's going wrong here, and ideally how to work around it. I found this blog post
http://www.basemont.com/panic_early_exception_i3_i5_i7_vmware_virtualbox_par...
which seems to hint that the Linux kernel might be involved in the problem after all. The processor in the problem host is a Xeon E3-1270V2, while the other one which works fine has an E3-1230. Alas the "nosmep" boot option did not have any effect.