M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > 1. Define "curdle their ext3 disk". > I use the word curdle to describe a disk with lost inodes, sectors that are multiply allocated, and other such problems that fsck valiantly tries to correct but winds up with a non-working system. In the last case I got a clean boot and clean subsequent fsck, however many applications just seg faulted when I tried to run them. > 2. What version of VMware are you using? > VMWare server 1.04 (latest freebe) > 3. What's your host version? > Windows XP 64 SP2. Booting off an Nvidia RAID5 4 disk 1 TB. > 4. Are you using the default settings on your virtual disks or are you > changing them in some way? > The first two I just took all the defaults. This new one I put on the IDE controller. I don't have a whole bunch of faith in the snapshot system either so I just don't use it.
Now here is something interesting, I just did a NTFS chkdsk on the RAID and it moved my vmdk's into a copy of the the VM's directory while reporting 2 lost files. These are the first errors I have ever seen on the NVidia RAID after running it for a year. This has me nervous enough to move the VM's off the RAID and onto an IDE backup drive in the system. Maybe I am looking at some VMare/XP64 interaction. Anyway I'll report any new problems on this thread. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel