[CentOS] guest vms crash host systems

Wed Oct 5 04:41:33 UTC 2011
Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > Since the crashes can be duplicated and are only caused by this one
> > combination of events, I don't know.
> >
> > On another machine, I had a case where none of the kvm guests would boot.
> It
> > turned out to be a conflict between libvirt and the nvidia proprietary
> > driver. I used an old version of the video driver until Nvidia caught up.
> > (It only affected amd processors.)
>
> Do you have to use the local video at all?   What happens if you use
> freenx and run in a session started from a remote NX client?
>

Doesn't freenx use X? I haven't installed but will try it.

What I did try was to leave X off on workstation and built a fedora guest. I
also connected to the workstation from another machine via ssh and I tried
running the virt-viewer via X-forwarding, it stayed up for about 10 or 15
minutes and crashed. Since I could see the console on the work station then,
it showed a kernel panic.

After rebooting I opened a terminal via ssh and it seems ok -- up for about
30 minutes so far, I'll check in the morning.

The trouble with that is I usually connect to the workshop via vnc, so I'm
not sure the guest will be of much use.