I can crash any server ESXi 4.1 of the guest operating system

Two months we went from ESXi 3.5 to 4.1. All servers are 320173 construction, all the virtual machines have the latest VMware tools installed. Among several hundred other reviews dare, we have 4 very old virtual machines, using SuSE Linux 8.x or 9.x with kernel 2.4. They are the remains of our stone age, but they work well and do their job.

When I have one of these virtual machines, stop everything ist fine.

When I boot these VMs upward once again, everything is fine.

But when I restart one of these virtual machines, the ESXi host crashes with all other virtual machines on it!

The usual image on the console remains the same, but it will not answer strikes more. Also, it does not ping, you can not connect you SSH or vSphere Client - nothing. She is completely blocked. The only options are the key reset or power button.

He will not make a difference, if you issue restarts the VM inside the os, as/sbin/reboot, or will it deliver you from vSphere Client with "Restart Guest". The result is always the same: a total crash of the whole army - and of course all other virtual machines on it.

We do not really know, if accidents are due to the fact, that these virtual machines use the old 2.4 kernel or some other problem. But those 4 virtual machines are the only ones that could damage the VMware host and they also are the only ones we have with the 2.4 kernel. + 100 other guests Linux with kernel 2.6 work as well as before with ESXi 3.5.

During this time we could improve (restore) 2 of these virtual machines with a modern with kernel 2.6 Linux. No problem with their reboot more. But the other 2 use old software that is not available for moden more Linux distributions. We have yet no work around. One of the remaining VMS cravings to restart last night and crashed the server [it's 07:00 right now in Vienna] and SMS alerts woke me out of bed about two hours ago.

Anyone else have these problems?

Everyone maybe there one alternative that "install a modern operating system"?

Thank you!

A shot in the dark, but have you tried to update your tools from VMware and the upgrade to vHardware 7 on those virtual machines?

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