vmnet FreeBSD 9.2 and ESXi 5.1

[Josh Paetzel]

> On Oct 6, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote:
> 
> I just installed an amd64 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE guest on to an ESXi 5.1 host. I am getting kernel panics from ESXi when I try to use vmnet NICs, whether from official vmware tools or from backporting vmnet from HEAD. 
> 
> I've been told vmware won't be fixing 5.1 for FreeBSD 9.2 issues, but I haven't chased that down.
> 
> So for now, just a heads up I guess. 
> 
> 


For what it's worth, I'm unable to reproduce the problem on ESXi 5.5. Howver the scope of the problem is greater than I initially reported. ESXi 5.1 kernel panics when doing shutdown guest OS on a FreeBSD 9.2 AMD64 guest using the vmware supplied tools, regardless of whether the NIC is vmnet3 or e1000. 

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel