On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Emil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm just starting out with virtualizing on my quite small webserver. > From running the server for a couple of years I know I get a few crashes > (kernel panics, hardware trouble or whatever) per year. How well does > the virtualized disks in vbox cope with kernel panics in the host and > guest? Is a .vdi more or less sensitive to data corruption and other > problems than a normal disk? > > Kind Regards Emil > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >
I think the guest filesystem is about the same but don't forget that you now have two OSes and their instability to worry about. If the Host crashes it could take out the guest if it were writing to disk. I've only lost one disk image so far but still it was inconvenient to fix. Back up those servers... Grant McWilliams Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Windows." Now they have two problems.
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