On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Negative <negativebinomial@xxxxxxxxx> 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, but suddenly > freeze, crashing the host. There is no networking. No X. No way to drop out > of X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I don't see anything in the logs -- > messages or libvirt logs -- immediately before the crash. > > I haven't found anything like this on the web or on this list. The > workstation has two xeon E5410s. I noticed that both the kvm-amd and > kvm-intel modules are loaded, but don't know if that would cause a problem. > I had an ati firepro graphics card in the machine, but suspected that might > be the source of some conflict, and I put in an Nvidia card. > > The vm's were built with all the defaults. The configuration is just about > identical to vms I have running on a smaller machine with a dual core > Athalon. > > Thanks for any suggestions. 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. -☙ Brian Mathis ❧- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos