Re: D3 Linux on VMWare Server ?

Marshall wrote:
On Mar 17, 5:19 pm, Matt Hyne <mh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As part of server consolidation we are being asked (forced) to rehost
our D3 Linux 7.4.2 server on a VMware virtual machine.

Now, performance isn't a huge deal since our machine is currently very
under utilized.

I did a quick try here and could not get it to install (complained about
the partition table). Not sure if this was a VM problem or mine.

Has anyone successfully run D3 on a VMware Linux virtual machine ?
Experiences ?

Matt

Are you using a SAN or NAS for your virtual partitions? Could there
be an issue with D3 not finding the RAW partition needed to host the
database because it is not local storage? I believe that D3 likes to
think it is in total, direct, control of the physical hard disk. I
have found ways around this (one thing I have done is create a series
of 2GB files and then have linux set them up as if they were hard
drives, that should be similar to a vmWare virtual partition). Make
sure that you create a virtualized drive just of D3 to have it's
database on. I wouldn't set it up as a partition of the virtual
partition, but make it it's own vmdk file.

Marshall

I am trying to run D3 7.4.2 on Centos 4.6 (we run this in production and it works very well). The virtual disk file is sitting on the host machine's hard disk.

The problem I am getting is a failure when trying to run the d3_setup file. Now, I just tried running this on a real Centos 4.6 machine and got the same errors so I dont think this is because of VMware.

It seems to not like the disk setup - the same setup is on the real machine (which fails too) and I cannot work out how to move on.

Below is the errors:

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/tmp/D3_setup: line 401: 13913 Segmentation fault ./instal_pick $LIBDIR $FSIINST

Here are some log files:


Disk /dev/sda: 1435 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 13 267 255 2048287+ d3 Unknown
/dev/sda3 268 1434 1167 9373927+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
.

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