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Title: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 12:03:57 PM

I have been having problems with 2 (the only 2) sme VM's but not any of the windows guests.
Due to my 100% belief in SME i have explored pretty much all avenues of it being a host problem and have appied the vmware mod as detailed in the centos bug tracker. (ie making vmware use an older libc lib.)

but im still getting crashes. It appears to be only at high disk IO. If i run a backup the machine will fall over. Usually at the mysqldump phase but semetimes later on.
The VM is using a SCSI emulated disk as the ide ones were not recognised by sme.

last error from the vmware log for one of the machines

(http://www.viseon.co.uk/screenshot1.JPG)

does anyone have any suggestions?

Many Thanks

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: Stefano on February 08, 2010, 01:15:32 PM

I beg your pardon but I don't understand your problem :-)

is SME crashing? did you try to install vmware tools (http://wiki.contribs.org/VMware_Tools) on SME?

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 01:24:16 PM

yeah sme is crashing.
I tried installing vmware tools as suggested in vmware docs but this causes the network to fail. SO i took it back off again.

Basically the sme servers crash at random intervals. Sometimes they will be fine for days, other days they will crash 4 or 5 times a day.

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jester on February 08, 2010, 01:26:22 PM

If sme is crashing i think your better of in the bug-tracker.

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 01:34:07 PM

I have added it to the bug tracker then.

You think its a sme problem then? is noone else running sme guests on centos host?

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: Stefano on February 08, 2010, 01:40:01 PM

Quote from: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 01:34:07 PM

I have added it to the bug tracker then.

You think its a sme problem then? is noone else running sme guests on centos host?

I have a pair of SME running in vmware2 server.. no problem at all but the clock on one of them.. solved with vmware tools

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 01:43:59 PM

havnt got a problem with the clock. but i cant install the tools anyway as if i do it breaks the network.

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 08, 2010, 02:54:58 PM

I think you have a hardware problem. Do a thorough memory test.

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 03:10:27 PM

ok will do, but do you think if i had a ram issue id loose the host and or the other virtual machines aswell. It wouldnt be isolated to only the sme vm's?

Title: Re: SME as a VMware guest on centos5.4
Post by: jameswilson on February 08, 2010, 04:22:29 PM

Charlie
Sorry it was accedental (reopening the bug report)
i kind of assumed that sme wouldnt be the problem