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Bug ID 6621869
Synopsis Solaris hangs on TSC calibration while powering on under VMware ESX Server
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory kernel:arch-x86
Keywords ESX | TSC | VMware
Responsible Engineer Surya Prakki
Reported Against
Duplicate Of
Introduced In sunos_2.0
Commit to Fix snv_111
Fixed In snv_111
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_111) , solaris_10u8(s10u8_02) (Bug ID:2177619)
Related Bugs 6409305 , 6539802 , 6764734 , 6843830
Submit Date 26-October-2007
Last Update Date 1-June-2009
Description 
While powering up Solaris under VMware ESX server, it was stuck and not proceeding further with booting. It is found that VCPU-0 is spinning trying to get time-of-day lock, tod_lock, and tod_lock is actually held by VCPU-1 that seemingly fails to make progress while getting hres time.
Work Around 
N/A
Comments 
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