On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:40:16AM +0000, Michal wrote: > Steve Reilly wrote: > > FTALOVER wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950. This > >> machine is hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running > >> Lenny. All guests were running fine until I upgraded the kernel to > >> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-19 in the 3 boxes running Lenny. Now > >> those boxes are repeatedly freezing because the system clock seems to > >> stall. Forcing the kernel to use acpi_pm as clocksource instead of TSC > >> and disabling TSC doesn't seems to help. So, does anybody have any > >> suggestion on how to fix this? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Eric L. > >> > >> > > Did you not take a snapshot before the upgrade?? One of the biggest +'s > about ESXi is befor you do anything, take a snapshot to roll back to... > > >> > > boot back to the old kernel and delete the new one? restore a backup? > > just curious....why are you installing something other than a security > > update on a server? Unhapilly, this is very common with VMware... There is some good configuration, but depends on kernel version, hardware... The Good doc : http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf
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