on 10:05 Wed 09 Mar, Lamar Owen (lowen@pari.edu) wrote:
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 04:44:54 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'd very strongly recommend you configure netconsole.
Ok, now this is useful indeed. Thanks for the information, even though I'm not the OP.... While I suspected the facility might be there, I hadn't really dug for it, but if this will catch things after filesystems go r/o (ext3 journal things, ya know) it could be worth its weight in gold for catching kernel errors from VMware guests (serial console not really an option with the hosts I have,
Yep, it is.
Netconsole made me fall in love with Linux all over again.
although I'm sure some enterprising soul has figured out how to redirect the VM guest serial port to something else....).