RE: FreeBSD LSI Logic fixes for VMware

Hi Jason,

I'm not sure how you did that, but ESX Server doesn't support IDE Hard Drives 
(neither physical nor virtual). So your VM with IDE Virtual disk just wouldn't 
run on ESX Server (it's not FreeBSD related, just any OS).
Maybe you moved the VM to GSX or VMware Server?

Best regards,
Dmitry

Quoting Jason Tyler <jason.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I did it by creating the FreeBSD image on VMWare workstation with an IDE
> Drive (Legacy Virtual Disk).  Then copying the virtual disk to the ESX
> server, and modifying the .vmx file on the ESX server to include an
> additional IDE drive - a piece of my vmx file:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/vmware
> config.version = "6"
> virtualHW.version = "3"
> scsi0.present = "FALSE"
> scsi0.virtualDev = "vmxlsilogic"
> memsize = "256"
> ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide0:0.fileName = "/vmfs/vmhba0:0:0:6/firewall1.vmdk"
> ide0:0.deviceType = "ata-hardDisk"
> ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
> ide1:0.fileName = "/root/pfsense.iso"
> ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
> floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
> floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Sorokin [mailto:dimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:49 PM
> To: discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [pfSense-discussion] FreeBSD LSI Logic fixes for VMware
> 
> Hi Jason,
> 
> Can you provide more details?
> Which controller did you choose (LSI Logic or BUS Logic)?
> Which options did you modify in your vmx file?
> If you could post it here, that would be perfect.
> Did you try it with ESX 2.5.3 or ESX 3.0?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Dmitry
> 
> 
> Quoting Jason Tyler <jason.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I was able to get it to work by building the VM in VMware workstation,
> > then copying the disk image to ESX and modifying the .vxd file.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:sullrich@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:09 AM
> > To: discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] FreeBSD LSI Logic fixes for VMware
> >
> > Interesting.  We merged what we thought was all of the fixes from
> > FreeBSD current but they where not working.   I'll look into this
> > further as w really want ESX supported for pfSense.
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Dmitry Sorokin <dimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > First, thanks a lot for a GREAT product. pfSense rules!
> > >
> > > Recently I was trying to install pfSense on VMware ESX server (for
> > some testing
> > > and dev projects) but failed to do so.
> > > Further inverstigation led me to this:
> > > http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=40606
> > >
> > > So, It's the LSI Logic driver that doesn't work properly with VMware
> > ESX Server.
> > > They claim it's fixed in FreeBSD 6.1.
> > > Is it possible to incorporate that fix into pfSense for  the next
> > release (RC3
> > > or 1.0-RELEASE)?
> > >
> > > Again, thanks a lot for a great product.
> > >
> > > Dmitry
> > >
> > >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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