[AccessD] OT: Further to VM weirdness

Not that this is in any way relevant to your problem, and not that this is
in any way to be construed as an endorsement of Larry Ellison, but I have
never experienced anything like this using (formerly Sun, but now Oracle)
VirtualBox. It just keeps on working, and serving up in my case WInXP,
Linux Mint 11, and Ubtuntu 11.04. I leave them all running every day and
nothing seems to go amiss. I have way less RAM than you, but perhaps your
problem relates to Microsoft rather than your hardware or the demands your
VMs are placing upon your extensive hardware.

Just a thought.Try VirtualBox instead. Run it alongside your existing
stuff. Let both be for a couple of days and then check out what happened,
who choked on the biscuit, etc.

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi John:
>
> If you have some disk with spinwrite on it, it might be worth a look but
> your drives are probably too large and it would take days just to "attempt"
> to fix. Can I assume you have a good UPS attached? If it is only one drive
> it could be just a bad drive...more than one is almost guaranteed to be
> caused by a power issue in the neighbourhood, like brown outs?
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 5:44 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Further to VM weirdness
>
> That hard disk appears to be mostly empty.  I have other directories on the
> drive (with old VMs etc)
> which are still intact but the subdir with the "in use" VMs is just gone.
>
> I downloaded Recuva to see what it thinks is going on on that disk.  It
> shows no sign of that subdir
> being "deleted", nor does it show the VM files themselves.  These VM disk
> files are large - 60 gigs
> each and there is nothing in the "deleted" stuff that large, nor are there
> any matching file names.
>
> Just gone.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 5/29/2012 8:12 AM, jwcolby wrote:
> > I came up to my office this am to find three VMs in a critical state,
> locked up. I shut them down
> > manually and they showed "critical state" in the vm manager. I shut all
> the vms down (I run 6
> > actively) and rebooted the vm server. When I tried to start the critical
> machines, they gave an
> > error message "cannot find file". Sure enough the entire directory that
> held the virtual machines is
> > missing.
> >
> > Now I am trying to figure out how to look at a missing directory.
> >
>
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