On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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.
Virtual Box has a log facility which would record why the
guest machine has locked up, if its the host machine that has locked upt
- have you trid the magic sysrq combo ?
VB also allows for scsi controllers - but I believe the best bang for
buck is sata
> >
> > 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?
>
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