Random idea - did you limit the amount of memory virtual machine
can use? I had problems with Windows XP install inside VMware
until I reduced the limits to be small enough to not consume
all physical memory. After that, I don't have any runtime
issues using VMware 3.2.

Jaromir

Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone faced (and solve) a recurrent "abort trap" problem ?
> the error is
> ************
> vmmon: Vmx86_DestroyVM: unlocked pages: 978908, unlocked dirty pages: 672295
> ************
> 
> I checked the ACPI problem, but I have to right hal.dll...
> VMware keeps dying (or making windows reboot rebooting) really really often...
> 
> any idea ?
> 
> thanks for answers,
> 	Jo
> 
> PS - my conf is :
> NetBSD atheria 1.6.1 NetBSD 1.6.1 (ATHERIA-$Revision: 1.3.0 $) #0: Tue Apr 22 21:49:30 CEST 2003     root@:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ATHERIA i386
> <- this is a laptop
> 
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (cvs from xsrc)
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: NetBSD/i386 1.6.1 [ELF] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
> Build Date: 22 April 2003
> 
> vmware-module-1.2   Kernel modules for the VMware 2.x emulator
> suse_vmware-7.3     Linux compatibility package to support running VMware
> vmware-2.0.4        VMware 2.x emulator
> 
> my /etc/mk.conf contains (in case it can be a compil. problem)
> CFLAGS+=                -O2 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686
> CXXFLAGS+=              -O2 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686
> COPTS+=                 -O2 -mcpu=i686 \
>                         -fexpensive-optimizations \
>                         -ffast-math \
>                         -fmemoize-lookups \
>                         -fthread-jumps \
>                         -m486 \
>                         -finline-functions
> 

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