[geeks] VMware and CentOS

[Ido Dubrawsky]

I have a VALinux 2240 2U with dual 1 GHz Pentium III and 2G memory. I've 
installed CentOS 4.5 on it and VMware Server 1.0.5.  I've had everything 
from VMware 1.0 to 1.0.5 on it but everytime there's enough disk 
activity the host OS goes belly up and I lose all my work.  At this 
point I'm in the process of migrating my virtual disks to another 
machine so that I can rebuild the box completely with CentOS 5.1.  The 
only problem I have is I can't decide if the problem is in the hardware, 
the Adaptec SCSI driver in Linux (I can't imagine so since this server 
used to be my IDS box running RedHat 9.0 and it NEVER crashed this much).

My suspicion is that it's VMware Server that's destabilizing the system 
since ever since I installed VMware Server 1.0.5 this morning it has 
been crashing even MORE frequently.  Has anyone else had similar 
experiences?  Should I migrate to XenSource?  Any other recommendations. 
I'd like to keep this box as a virtual lab but I really need it to be 
stable.

Ido

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Ido Dubrawsky
Network Security Architect
dubrawsky.org


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