[geeks] VMware and CentOS

[Ido Dubrawsky]

geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
 >
 > Nothing in the logs? You might want to enable sar (yum install 
sysstat I think) and it will take snapshots of all activity every 10 
minutes, so you could analyze
 > what was going on before the crash.
 >
Nope, nothing in the logs...that's the real annoyance.  I'm not sure sar 
may be able to diagnose this but I'll give it a try.
 >
 > Do you have all the virtual hard disk pre-allocated, or do you have 
it set to auto-extend? Are you sure both the host and the virtualized 
system have enough
 > swap?
 >
I have the disks set to auto-extend.  I'm quite sure that I've got 
enough swap allocated (I've given the host 4GB of swap just in case).  
I'll see about VirtualBox.

Ido

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Ido Dubrawsky
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