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sythrar

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Registered: 2013-11-07

Posts: 1

ACPI Delay in kernel boot - VMWARE

I have a guest arch linux and this boot takes a long time, when I look at the logs ACPI is very large with a delay look:

[    1.114564] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[   14.813727] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (domain 0000 [bus 00-7f])

[   14.939847] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15)
[   21.819605] ACPI: Enabled 2 GPEs in block 00 to 0F

systemd-analyze time gives the kernel takes 30 sec.

If you acpi = off kernel boot is in 2 sec, but does not have to shutdown the vm.

Test in kernel 3.12 and 3.11 the same result

PS: linux LTS boot = 1min e 30 sec

sorry my bad english

VMWARE post = https://communities.vmware.com/message/2308946#2308946
omeone created the bug about it : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021747

Last edited by sythrar (2013-11-07 00:13:38)

PhilThompson

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Registered: 2012-08-15

Posts: 13

Re: ACPI Delay in kernel boot - VMWARE

Yeah, I'm seeing this too.

hwti

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Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 3

Re: ACPI Delay in kernel boot - VMWARE

For me disabling "mem.hotadd" in the vmx file fixes the issue.
kernel boot time reported by systemd-analyze : 49s => 1.5s

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: ACPI Delay in kernel boot - VMWARE

I can confirm this with 3.14.5-1-ARCH.
hwti's tip works fine in my case too! What did the redhat guys change!?

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