I configured remote syslog attempting to get more info on this, but logs don't show any error, apart of this: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 kernel: hda: DMA timeout error kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd8 { Busy } kernel: kernel: hda: DMA disabled kernel: ide0: reset: success can be related to hangs? (sometimes we have these errors and virtual machine continues running) Lluís El dl 30 de 01 de 2012 a les 11:00 +0100, en/na lluis va escriure: > Hello, > we are trying to do a p2v migration with dd from a running machine. We > have written the process we followed here: > http://www.ingent.net/en/2012/01/from-physical-to-virtual-with-dd-over-the-net/ > > guest uses IDE disk since it has an old kernel and we can't use virtio > it works, but about once a week it hangs and we can't access it even > with virt-manager. We have to force it off, logs don't show anything, it > seems it loses access to disk, how can we debug this? should the process > we used to migrate work? > > regards, > Lluís > >