Negative wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:41 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Brian Mathis wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Negative negativebinomial@gmail.com wrote:
I built guest vm's one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP using the virtual machine manager on a  just updated to centos 5.7, and they are both crashing the host machine. They run only  for a few minutes,
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Is this new hardware? Have you run any hardware burn testing (CPU, RAM, etc...) and/or memtest86+ on the RAM? This sounds like a hardware issue to me.
It's about three years old. I had one hardware issue a year ago in which a video card fried, but it's been great. I will run memtest this afternoon.
I agree with Brian - it may be coincidental that you built the VMs, and then it started crashing.
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-- and that would've been my fault. Then, every time X is running the guest and host crash.
One other question: is selinux enabled?
Yes. No warnings, though.
More and more it sounds like a hardware issue. Hmm, every time X is running, and you say you had one video card fried - how did it fry? Also, is this machine on a good quality surge protector? Have you had a thunderstorm, or power outages recently?
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