On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you guys might > have some advice for me. It uses a 2.6 kernel.
What virtual machine, exactly? > > The physical machine had SCSI drives, and I have changed grub and fstab > to reflect virtualbox's hardware (hda, instead of sda). I can boot into > single user mode and go about my business, but after a certain amount of > time it locks up hard. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, even > running 'top' eventually gets it to lock up. > > Is there anything I've missed as far as telling the kernel and OS about > my new (virtualized) hardware? I don't expect you guys to be Suse experts, > obviously, > but maybe somebody here has had a similar experience w/ Debian. Not a SUSE expert, but have you looked at /var/log/messages in the guest? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
