After installing FreeBSD on VMware, I tried booting from it, and got
this error.
reddit / freebsd

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Puzzleface62 · 2022-04-28 23:25

Probably not enough memory allocated

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ValuableAir9792 · 2022-04-28 23:26

I installed it using 4GB of RAM.

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ValuableAir9792 · 2022-04-28 23:27

It should be plenty enough for FreeBSD to work.

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DriverX310 · 2022-04-28 23:43

Try switching to BIOS instead of EFI?

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[deleted] · 2022-04-29 01:15

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revhelix · 2022-04-29 01:24

My first thoughts are:

Switch to BIOS mode (Boo)

Check your CPU virtualization settings, maybe turn off some features
if you've activated any. VMWare is usually good about these errors
though.

VM should have crapped itself before activating if the CPU
virtualization extensions were not activated in you systems bios, and
VMware has a good error message for that.

Since you are in Windows, although I am not sure which version, see if
Microsoft's Hypervisor is competing and locking resources.

Also, make sure that you set the OS to FreeBSD 12 64bit for 12+.

I don't use Windows, so I can't be more specific, but I have ran into
some documentation that stated that their hypervisor can be
problematic in certain situations. So my best guess is to turn
anything off that is using WSL (Like running Ubuntu from the Microsoft
store).

Otherwise, I haven't had any issues running FreeBSD in VMWare
Workstation/Fusion.

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Xzenor · 2022-04-29 06:37

It is. I've installed it with 512mb

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me0on · 2022-04-29 12:51

BSD error lol

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jschmidt3786 · 2022-04-29 16:39

Was this an automated install or interactive?
Try rebooting to the install media and take a look to see if the ESP
is populated.

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grahamperrin · 2022-04-29 18:42

Which version of FreeBSD, exactly?

What's the file name of the installer?

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grahamperrin · 2022-04-29 18:42

> Try switching to BIOS instead of EFI?

The ASCII art is not what's expected with EFI boot. Suspect that's
it's already EFI disabled.

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ValuableAir9792 · 2022-04-29 23:05

I installed it on UEFI.

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alphabet_order_bot · 2022-04-29 23:05

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in
alphabetical order.

I have checked 752,902,503 comments, and only 151,171 of them were in
alphabetical order.

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ValuableAir9792 · 2022-04-29 23:08

FreeBSD-12.3-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly

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grahamperrin · 2022-04-30 00:17

Thanks. Now, [given the version](https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comm
ents/ue7xl1/after_installing_freebsd_on_vmware_i_tried/i6q5fen/), the
ASCII art makes more sense.

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grahamperrin · 2022-04-30 00:18

Maybe this:

* FreeBSD bug [251866 – Because the loader.efi modified the size of
EFI_STAGING_SIZE, vmware could not start the system above FreeBSD
12.2](https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251866)

Can you try release candidate 13.1-RC5? Thanks

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snogbat · 2022-05-04 22:00

which vmware product? esxi, fusion, etc.?

for reference, I have a bunch of 12.x VMs on esxi 6.7 at home, no
issues at all.

[https://i.imgur.com/AgW1G8X.png](https://i.imgur.com/AgW1G8X.png)

as you can see, also a really old pfsense as well to test exporting
from that very old version... I also had a few 8.4 hosts as well w/o
issue.

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ValuableAir9792 · 2022-05-26 20:30

VMware Workstation 16.2