FreeBSD running on ESX 3
October 9, 2006 | 5:23 pmWow, finally, FreeBSD can run as a guest os on VMware ESX server. I’m really excited about this, because I’m a bit in love with FreeBSD, but my play-box at home is a VMware ESX 3 server, and I don’t want to spend extra money on more physical servers. Or at least, the power they use..
Now I am happily running a few instances of FreeBSD 6.2 on my ESX box, without a sweat! You’ll have to install using a snapshot CD at the moment though, and then you can update to the latest version of RELENG_6.
The problem that was keeping FreeBSD from installing, was in the LSI Logic SCSI controller driver, and something with LUN id’s. The FreeBSD driver maintainer, mjacob, fixed this issue, so off we were! Read about it in the VMware forum:
