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_parallels 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. -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120912/5cf375b6/attachment-0004.sig>