I've encountered that bug on a native machine with kernel 2.6.15-28-amd64-server too. And I found the web pages that contains the solution of this problem. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/1/381 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/2/4 -- kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:372! on a vmware node https://launchpad.net/bugs/58170