Debian 8 CPU stall

[Rajil Saraswat]

On 12/11/2016 11:11 AM, Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Rajil,
>
>> I don't seem to have that sysctl on my system. Should i create one?
>
>  It's there:
>
>> # sysctl -a |grep vmm
> ...
>> hw.vmm.vmx.cap.posted_interrupts: 1
>> hw.vmm.vmx.cap.virtual_interrupt_delivery: 1
>
>  The easiest way to disable APIC virtualization is to add this line to
> /boot/loader.conf and reboot
>
> hw.vmm.vmx.use_apic_vid="0"
>
> (I got that wrong in the previous email; should have been zero)
>
>  On a reboot, the above sysctl leaves should be set to 0.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.

Hi Peter,
This seems to have worked. Even after 5 days of uptime, i dont see the
CPU stall messages. It looks like an issue with debian only as my other
vm's based off ubuntu and centos did not have those errors.

Thanks,
Rajil