On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 09:50:55 +1100
Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All. I'm looking for some suggestions. Setup is Gentoo host running
> VMWare workstation 8 with two guests which are loosely based on RHEL.
> I'm checking to see if patch installation order in the guests has any
> effect. Not all the patches are rpm based, so I want to check to see
> if there are any differences in the file content between the guests.
>
> This (find / -type f -exec md5sum {} + > /sumoutput.txt) hangs after
> about 11000 files. I could troubleshoot it, but is there something
> more elegant? Something to mount the guest filesystem in gentoo?
>
The command you are running is over-reaching. You didn't say which file
the command stops at, but I'll bet it is something in /proc or /sys,
places where you really shouldn't be md5summing anyway.
You are doing an update, the places you should be checking are more
likely /etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib, /opt, /usr and the like.
Rather use find with the -xdev option, and repeat for each on-disk
file-system.
If the host has much more resources than the guest, enough more to make
running md5sum on the host a viable proposition, then the easiest would
be for the guest to export it's filesystem over nfs to the host.
It is possible to loop-mount the guest vmdk file to the host, but a
quick google shows that this can get quite involved. NFS can be set
up and running in a few minutes.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
