On 19 Sep 2007 at 9:22, Scott Ruckh wrote: > I am running CentOS 4.5 x64 with self compiled kernel 2.6.13.4. I have > installed the latest bacula 2.2.4 Director, Client, and Storage daemon on > this server. > > Bacula run flawlessly most of the time. > > Unfortunately when I run VMWare Workstation and have a virtual machine > running, Bacula crashes the entire system. I am running the latest > version of the 5.x series of VMWare. I am also running fluxbox as my > Window Manager, although I don't think that has anything to do with the > problem.
Why do yo > > This problem has existed with all versions of Bacula starting with > 1.3.8.11 which is the first version I installed. > > My backups are to an external USB disk connected to the Host OS. > > The virtual machine is not configured with USB port because at one time I > thought there might be contention between the Physical USB disk and the > USB port configured with the Virtual Machine. > > All virtual machines and host system work fine when bacula backups are not > running. > > I have tested this with all sorts of guest Virtual Machines and the > results are the same; bacula will crash (completely unusable) the host > machine. The only recovery method it to reboot the server. It is not clear. Are you running Bacula in the VM or on the host machine? I think Bacula is running in the VM. I would start by running the regression tests. First, without the VM, then with the VM. See if they all pass. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
