Kernel hang with latest snapshot

[David Boreham]

> My approach is usually to set up a serial console and collect the 
> output of the stack back trace on another machine using minicom. This 
> requires a second machine and a null modem cable. This approach 
> doesn't work so well on machines that don't have serial ports like 
> newer laptops.

Ha ! If I want to get really retro, I have a VT220 here somewhere...

> Does vmware allow you to set up a virtual serial console and route the 
> output to another vmware virtual machine?

It would appear that the vmware people thought of this already.
There is an option to add a virtualized serial device to the VM,
the output from which can be written to a file on the host machine.
This option is disabled by default.

Thanks for the pointer...