Rob Owens pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:26:03AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Friday, 2009-08-14 at 23:28 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
I have a physical server running SUSE 9.2 (which I cannot upgrade), and I am attempting to move it to a virtual machine using VirtualBox. I have changed grub and fstab to reflect the new hard drive names (hda instead of sda). Has the architecture changed? 32 vs 64?
Nope, both are 32 bit.
Are you attempting to use the original physical disks, or are you using virtualized disks on the host?
I dd'd the original disk, then ran:
VBoxManage convertdd
I have the latest version installed and cannot find any such option to VBoxManage. There is a convertfromraw but that is the closest.
to produce a virtualized disk.
By the way, I'm using the open source version of VirtualBox on a Debian host. It's version 1.6.6.
We're a friendly list and won't hold that against you. :-)
I can get the virtual machine to boot into single user mode, but it freezes after a few minutes. Have a look at /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log/messages
Nothing gets written to /var/log/messages. boot.msg gets written, but I haven't seen any clues there. I'll look some more.
You are looking at the logs on the VM, right and not the host?
Did you try runlevel 3? Single user mode is 1.
I tried runlevel 3, but it freezes at "Starting nfsboot (sm-notify)".
Try running "top" to see what task ares being executed when it freezes.
I ran top and it froze the system! That might have just been perfect timing, though, because I reset and it again and it worked for a few minutes. Here's what was running when it froze (CPU was at 0%):
init ksoftirqd/0 events/0 kblockd/0 pdflush aio/0 kswapd0 reiserfs/0 kcopyd/0 bash top
Uptime was 2 minutes. Interesting... I reset and ran top again, and uptime was again 2 minutes when it froze.
If I boot into runlevel 5, I get an ncurses Yast which says "ACCEPT" and "CANCEL" and shows a big gray box where the menu choices should be. Choosing "ACCEPT" or "CANCEL" locks up the virtual machine. That could be the video mode :-?
What would I do about that? Change a grub parameter? I tried vga=791 and vga=771
Thanks for your help.
-Rob
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