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? > virtualbox-ose on Lenny and also on Squeeze (version 1.6.6 and 2.1.4).
> > > > 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? > Yeah, it doesn't get written to at all. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
