From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 17 19:18:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551C516A4CF for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:18:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.122.132.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8300943D46 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:18:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:18:53 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:18:53 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20041017191853.GA17623@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: vmware3 and spontanious reboots X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:18:55 -0000 I run vmware3 on a FreeBSD-4.10p3 system. I have a Duron-800 processor, so it's a rather slow machine. I have experienced about five sudden reboots, which are unexplained to me. They all happened while my virtual win98se had heavy disk activity. Sometimes transfering files, sometimes while I wanted to start up mozilla in X, outside the vm. It looks like something goes wrong accessing the harddisk. Recently I rebuilded my kernel with HZ=1200 and changed the vmware config file to have vmnet1, vmnet2 etc... The virtual machines are configered "ethernet=custom --> /dev/vmnetx" I wonder: could it be that the instability of my system has something to do with the changed HZ=1200 (default hz=100) or is it better to have a HostOnly vm-machine on /dev/vmnet1 or what? Could somebody suggest me some things to look into, figuring out this strange behaviour. I don't like these reboots at all. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya