-- On Monday, March 07, 2005 23:51:54 -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires 
wrote:

> Florent Parent wrote:
>
>>
>> vmware3 and vmware-module3 from recent pkgsrc compiles ok but modules
>> (vmmon) fails to load:
>> LKM 'vmmon': environment compile options mismatch - LKM '', kernel
>> 'MULTIPROCESSOR'
>>
>> Found out that using -DMULTIPROCESSOR=1 when building the lkm would
>> fix the above (message from <lha@stacken.kth.se> sent on 2004-04-19).
>> The resulting modules are loaded. vmnet1 interfaces shows up as expected.
>>
>> Start vmware, boot netbsd1.6 image, system hang. I can switch to the
>> console (ctl-alt-f1) to see  timeout messages from the viaide and ex0
>> ethernet drivers. System is unresponsive, need to hard reset.
>>
>> Question: is the emulators/vmware3-module non compatible with
>> "MULTIPROCESSOR" kernel?
>>
>> I'd like to hear from anyone successfully using a similar
>> configuration. If not, I can open a new pr.
>>
>> Florent
>>
>> .
>>
> Not sure if this was already answered by anyone else, but I've always run
> only uni-processor kernels, and I noticed vmware3 doing exactly what you
> described after I started enabling ACPI.  Even with recent -current
> kernels, vmware3 runs fine with ACPI disabled, but I don't know if this
> is an option for MP kernels.


No, you're the first to respond to my query ;-) I will disable APCI and see 
what happens. (next week since I'm away from home).

Thanks for the info.

Florent