> From: "Steven McDowall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:24:23 AM > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] troubleshooting smartos/supermicro > > > Just to make sure the scenario is clear (not that I'm going to be of > much help) > > -- 2 identical machines (including BIOS settings?) > > -- they used to work perfectly until KVM/Windows 7? No issues at all > > -- Ever since KVM/Windows 7 they "hang" periodically. How much time > between hangs? > > -- BOTH machines exhibit the exact same behavior ? > > Good luck and let us know what you find out! I've been running a > Windows 7 VM for 3 weeks w/o any issues (on a Dell c2200 granted) > FWIW
all correct, but keep this in mind: the sole purpose of these two boxes is to provide a set of apps that only runs on windows. originally, windows 7 was to be installed on bare metal; i figured smartos would give me much better remote troubleshooting capability, backups, and all the other goodies that smartos/zfs brings - so now it's just smartos->kvm->win7. the boxes don't have a history, they were newly commissioned just for this purpose. last night one of the windows instances stayed up through a 500+MB download from the web; at some point at the tail end of the download both the vm and smartos went off network. unfortunately, that's the extent of my data at this point. what i'm really fishing for is an idea how to isolate the problem if indeed smartos is up and both network connections are down. since i cannot yet login to the console, i cannot tell for certain whether the kvm instance is up - if it's not up, the vm ip would be down anyway. ipmi seems happy, and the screenshot of the console shows the login and no errors. i do understand this could be a hang situation; i'm just trying to determine best steps to take once i can get onsite to troubleshoot. unless this is bios-related, i can't see how a hardware malfunction would take out both boxes. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
