VMWARE REDHAT


error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds

During the conversion of a Redhat ES 4 (Nahant) physical server to an esx3.5i host I was having repeated failures after around 15 minutes. From vmware-converter-agent.log I found this error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds“. An researched this to find that there is a hard coded limit on the length of […]


Persistence is futile or Adventures with virtualising a RedHat server

QUITE Some time ago I began working on options for virtualising a physical Redhat server running on Dell hardware. Given my experience with various operating systems and migration to virtual machines – it wasn’t immediately obvious that this one would prove to be so stubborn. But it turned out to be an epic spanning almost […]