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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:18 +0200
From:      Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x
Message-ID:  <20070913201318.GA19650@laverenz.de>
In-Reply-To: <D131FE09E8C6DE4199C882A00CF42A751211CE@scorpion.immense.local>
References:  <D131FE09E8C6DE4199C882A00CF42A751211CE@scorpion.immense.local>

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Bret J. Esquivel wrote:

> Has anyone successfully been able install FreeBSD on a ESX server? I

Yes, I have successfully installed FreeBSD i386 and amd64 on ESX 3.x.
The only problem I know of is that SMP only works with FreeBSD/amd64.

> to install on ESX it will not find the ESX SCSI controller and not allow
> an install.

When creating a new virtual machine I always choose "Other" or
"Other(64-bit)" as guest OS. The virtual SCSI Controller is "LSI Logic",
FreeBSD is version 6.x. Once the virtual system is running, I install
the VMware Tools from VMware Server 1.x.

Uwe




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