This is what you said Robert LeBlanc > 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. >>
I will give this a try, I really had not thought that the VM files themselves might be the problem. I will test and report back. Thanks for the idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
