tags 453120 moreinfo severity 453120 normal stop On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 03:34:31PM +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: important
hmm your report is missing important info, you don't tell us which debian version against it is? -> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelReportingBugs > Hi, > when running a Debian system as VMware guest system one could get SCSI > timeouts when there is massive workload on the host system. Since some > kernel version these will get the filesystems remounted read-only, which > probably makes sense for real hardware, but doesn't make sense for > emulated hardware. Instead it should just wait a bit longer. > > See > http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/31-VMware-ESX-and-ext3-journal-aborts.html > > for some details and what needs to be changed in the kernel. Redhat and > SuSE seem to have this change in their kernels already it seems and > without that change it's impossible to run Debian as VMWare guest > reliable. > > Bye as this page only describes upstream changes, did you try newer linux-2.6 images from backports.org 2.6.22 or 2.6.23 from trunk snapshots see apt lines on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
