DragonFly hung up in Vmware

[Matthew Dillon]

:Hm... I just came across the following (year-old) thread and a more 
:recent blog entry regarding FreeBSD 5 and VMware, which suggests that 
:VMware's CMPXCHG instruction emulation may be at fault:
:
:http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=p05200f11ba562b901b75__128.113.24.47_%40ns.sol.net&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dvmware%2Bfreebsd%2B5.0%2B3.2%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dp05200f11ba562b901b75__128.113.24.47_%2540ns.sol.net%26rnum%3D4
:
:http://weblog.bluepenguin.us/archives/2003/01/21/freebsd_50_under_vmware_no_go_updated.html

    It seems unlikely.  There should be no uses of cmpxchg if you build a UP
    kernel to run under vmware.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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