I must admit, the VMware programmers have humour. You don’t see any funny things in the normal user interface, it just works and it rocks. The logs files on the other hand can sometimes reveal some nice entries. This one came from Ernst Cozijnsen, he discovered some funny events on one of his hosts.

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seems to be an ‘nmi-error’ found in the linux kernel at: 2.6.26-1-686/arch/x86/kernel/traps_32.c (Debian Lenny)