From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 13 20:46:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D4A16A41B for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from cg-p07-fb.rzone.de (cg-p07-fb.rzone.de [81.169.146.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD4E13C474 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mrclete-mo-p07-ob.mail [192.168.63.176]) by charnel-fb-05.store (RZmta 12.9) with ESMTP id Y01097j8DChIjE for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:15:13 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (p5480D707.dip.t-dialin.net [84.128.215.7]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo44) (RZmta 12.9) with ESMTP id j071b5j8DJg6c1 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:20 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from: ) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE5AE0AA2D2 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20879-02 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 1BFC2E0AA2D1; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:13:18 +0200 From: Uwe Laverenz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070913201318.GA19650@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de X-RZG-AUTH: l30WrtbrzmfyRJtZ7/TtK2qIdZIgjE9K4Q55TXGhenj8TX5ShWTsXpHkg+bpgFY= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 and VMWare ESX 3.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:46:12 -0000 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