On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > 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 ? > What is the magic sysrq combo? I don't know anything about that.
> > VB also allows for scsi controllers - but I believe the best bang for > buck is sata > I thought so, but I couldn't figure out how to change the controller type. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
