Try excluding the VM's vmdk file directory from Bacula. My guess is that it is trying to read an ever changing file (the virtual hard disk). If you want to back-up your VMs while they are running, look into automating snapshots and be sure to exclude the portion of the snapshot that is holding the changes (usually name_of_VM-snap.vmdk or something like that.
Robert LeBlanc On 9/19/07 10:22 AM, "Scott Ruckh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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. > > Is anyone else successfully running a similar environment? As bacula is > the only program that appears to cause the problem I am making an > assumption it is a problem with bacula. > > If anyone has this type of environment working successfully I would like > to hear about it. > > Thanks. Robert LeBlanc College of Life Sciences Computer Support Brigham Young University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801)422-1882 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
