From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756222AbXGZAbt (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752088AbXGZAbm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:42 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:42740 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbXGZAbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:41 -0400 Message-ID: <46A7E891.1020006@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:19:29 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Barazer CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware References: <46A7E606.4030001@oxeva.fr> In-Reply-To: <46A7E606.4030001@oxeva.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gabriel Barazer wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version > 5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") > is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally > succeeding (displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During this > time, the VM process is eating all the CPU time during the > decompression, like an infinite loop. LKML is not the right place for this question. You are running on Intel hardware? Bring the discussion over to http://www.vmware.com/community forums Zach