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Subject: Re: amd64 @ vmware esx 3.5?
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Hi,

I have been using 7.0 amd64 under ESX 3.5 for a few weeks without any 
problems. Do you mount the CD image remotely from a local workstation, 
or from within the internal ESX storage volume? As far as I recall I 
tried both ways, but for performance reasons usually stick to the latter.

Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 12:27:02PM +0200, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>
>   
>> I cannot install FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 on VmWare ESX 3.5. The kernel panics 
>> when trying to read the virtual cd-image that I mount in the VmWare client. 
>> Did anyone else succeed?
>>     
>
> Yes, I successfully installed several 6.3 and 7.0 machines on ESX 3.x
> without a problem (amd64 and i386).
>
> Uwe
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