Hi,
I'm running VMWare Server 2 on Scientific Linux 4 (i.e. RedHat 4)
Our main mounted file system is mounted using GPFS and I have been storing the VMs on the mounted file storage, most of the time this works fine, and gives us the ability to move machines between hosts etc.
However whenever anything attempts to make a copy of the virtual machine files, the VM shuts down! This can be using the normal cp copy command or scp or just our backup system. The interesting this is that it only occurs when the VM is being served from the GPFS filestore. If the VM is on local storage then it keeps running if a copy is taken of it.
This does cause problems as we'd like to be able to include the Virtual Machine storage directory in our backups.