start failed in vmware

[helloyan]

Environment

• Elixir version (elixir -v): 1.14.3
• Nerves environment: (mix nerves.env --info)

Nerves environment
  MIX_TARGET:   host
  MIX_ENV:      dev

NERVES_SYSTEM is unset
NERVES_TOOLCHAIN is unset
|nerves| Environment Variable List
  target:     host
  toolchain:  unset
  system:     unset
  app:        .

|nerves| Loadpaths End

• Additional information about your host, target hardware or environment that
  may help

  i use the hello_nerves code from start guide, generate the firmware and export it to a img by mix firmware.burn -d x.img, and use StarWind V2V Converter convert it to vmdk, then run it at vmware workstation (16.2.3)

Current behavior

hangup up at tsc

Expected behavior

run well

default.mp4

[fhunleth]

I'm afraid that none of us use VMWare Workstation so we can't help with why this isn't working. My guess would be the Linux kernel configuration needs to be different for VMWare.

[helloyan]

what device should to use for test?

[fhunleth]

We generally recommend Raspberry Pis (but not the Pico) and Beaglebones for getting started.

[SteffenDE]

The thing is I'm also seeing the problem of infinite "Waiting for root device" with the kernel config in this repo using QEMU. It works fine with a custom base system that uses a completely different kernel config though (too large to really have a useful comparison). I'll try to investigate...

[SteffenDE]

So: my QEMU wrapper (UTM) used an IDE disk. Adding CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y to the kernel config allows it to boot. As VMWare shows an IDE disk too, this could fix the problem there too. The easier solution would probably be to change the disk type to something else.