Incommunicado after winxp/vmware access over NFS
Not terribly exciting, but my amd64 sid box (Thunder K8S/AMD-8111/3ware
8506/Broadcomm 5700) let me down for the first time today, after months
of rock-solid performance. I was running WinXP over VMware on another
computer (x86), and accessing the RAID volume over NFS (and Samba, which
is how VMware sees beyond its navel). I've had trouble doing that before
on amd64 -- able to read, but not write, and the connections were
miserably slow. This setup has always worked fine on x86 boxes.
This time the amd64 box simply cut me off. I couldn't even get a local
display and it was unresponsive to the keyboard. ping came up empty. I
guess I could have waited a long time, but I just warm booted.
To complicate things, I run VMware over a remote X-windows connection,
but I don't think that mattered -- it's just WinXP having problems. Is
there simply a 32/64-bit conflict, as WinXP is obviously 32-bit and
can't quite grok 64-bit NFS? So this simply should be expected not to
work that well? Or a VMware problem? -- this is 4 rather than 4.5. But
the failure didn't crash WinXP or VMware, it just rendered my 64-bit
Linux friend incommunicado.
Cheers,
Dave
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