Hit there,
first of all i want to excuse for my bad english ...
I got a big problem wir VMWare Server 1.0.8 running on a Debian Etch 2.6.18-6-amd64 System. The System is installed on Linux Raid Partitions (md0-md4) - I think this could be a hint ...
Im running 3 VMs (2 x Debian, 1 x WinXP) inside the Server - from now on without any Problems...
Since yesterday I get Messages like the following from my Debain Clients:
mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=cec78300)
sd 0:0:0:0:
command: Write(10): 2a 00 00 2e 60 c1 00 00 10 00
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated
mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=cec78300)
This message sometimes ends in crashing the whole host system. Can't stop the Instances, or VMWare Server ...
This errors occur on both Debian VMs - the WinXP Maschine sometimes freezes.
I can reproduce this errors when copying a Backup of a Client onto a samba share inside of the Debian VM - the strange one on this is: the other Debian VM (without a samba shares) brings the same messages, without being busy ...
I already googled about this error. The solution was to copy the SCSI Drives (which i use in both Debian systems) to new IDE drives ... seems like VMWare Server got Problems with the SCSI on heavy load (especially on Debian?).
I don't think I can handle this copying from SCSI to IDE, so I'd like to ask if there is an easier way to get my VMs working stable again...
Is this a general fail of the Server or just on special installations (maybe because of the linux software raid?
If you need any further iformation about my setup please ask me ...
Thanks a lot
killer6666