topic Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3 in Simulator Discussions

9.2 sim > 9.3

bazmercer — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:06:32 GMT

edit: Looks like the 9.3 simulator is out now, I've deployed that OVA but it still panics....

~~Hi!~~

I'm having trouble upgrading the simulator to 9.3. I first tried it from 9.1 to 9.2 and to 9.3. I managed to get to 9.2 fine but 9.3 paniced. I then obtained the 9.2 sim and repeated the upgrade but I still receive a panic on first boot

PANIC: privileged instruction fault: num 1 code 0 cs:rip0x20 (see attached)

I've tried it with 9.3rc1 and 9.3GA but they all panic. This is on esxi 5.5.0, 6480324

Any ideas?

Thanks

Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3

bazmercer — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:49:16 GMT

Talking to myself, but for anyone else that has the panic issue moving it from our AMD cluster to our Intel one seems to have solved the problem

edit: incidentally I *think* this is because of our EVC settings but I'm not in a position to test it right now. We have our AMD cluster EVC set to "AMD Opteron™ Generation 3 (no 3DNow!™)" for whatever reason. It looks like one of the first things that 9.3 does is check for hardware AES support, which isn't enabled until "AMD Opteron™ Generation 4". Just a theory, but something to try.

Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3

SeanHatfield — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:06:43 GMT

Thanks for sharing that update.

Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3

NeilMurphy — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:52:51 GMT

I'm getting the same error with the 9.4 simulator. I'm running ESXi 6.5 on an AMD Turion(tm) II Neo N54L Dual-Core Processor. It looks like the newer versions of the sim don't like certain AMD procs. Time to upgrade the lab to Intel so!

Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3

bazmercer — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:00:12 GMT

I've had a quick search and it looks like that cpu doens't support hardware AES, which is probably what the issue is

Re: 9.2 sim > 9.3

NeilMurphy — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:12:25 GMT

Cheers Baz. BTW, do you know if there's a list of supported procs or required features?