Joe Auty <j...@...> writes: > > Hello, > > Can anybody kindly provide me some general ideas as to what might cause > these processes to randomly die all at the same time after having run > various VMs for several consecutive hours, and why I'm not getting any > log output to /var/log/messages that might help me determine the cause > of this problem? These processes just all of a sudden disappear, the > only remaining processes are a couple of vboxsvc processes: > > > /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --pipe 8 --auto-shutdown > > This is occurring on CentOS 5.2 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, Virtualbox > 3.2 (non OSE) installed via virtualbox.org RPM. This may be unrelated, > but I'm also getting nasty clock skews which I've been dealing with by > running ntpdate every minute. The kernel is being booted with the "notsc > divider=10" grub options - these were set a while ago when I was using > VMWare Server on this same machine and having the same sort of clock > skew problems. Related? Should I remove these grub options? >
there are a couple of ways (that I know of) to work around the "time skew" issue you're seeing.... 1. you can add many switches (clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic) to the end of your "kernel...." line in your grub list (/boot/grub/menu.lst) 2. use the kernel that has been optimised for vm's to get around this issue (add the repository to your list etc...) see http://people.centos.org/tru/kernel-vm/ I hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
