Re: [opensuse] migrating SUSE 9.2 to virtualbox machine

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

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.

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.

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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