Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine
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
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