On 19 Sep 2007 at 10:51, Scott Ruckh wrote: > > -- > http://photo-gallery.gemneye.org:1115/Gallery2/ > > This is what you said Dan Langille > > On 19 Sep 2007 at 9:22, Scott Ruckh 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. > > > > Why do yo > > When fluxbox is running with no VM running, the problem does not exist. > > > > >> > >> 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. > > > > It is not clear. Are you running Bacula in the VM or on the host > > machine? I think Bacula is running in the VM. > > I thought when I mentioned the backups were to USB disk and that the VM > machine is not configured with USB ports that it would be clear that > bacula is running on the HOST server and not the guest VM. Plus I believe > I mentioned that bacula runs fine when no VM is running, which I thought > would be clear that bacula is not running on a guest VM.
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