Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine
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
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