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, although I'm sure some enterprising soul has figured out how to redirect the VM guest serial port to something else....).