FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

[Derek Ragona]

At 10:54 PM 10/13/2008, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>         I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD
>7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM.
>         After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU
>registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM
>setup.
>         It does not happen with i386 version.
>         Which is the best release to install in this box? Should I go
>ahead with i386?
>
>Thank you,
>
>- Marcelo

I have multiple VM's running the i386 version under ESXi.  I think you need 
to examine what purpose you are running the FreeBSD VM, and then choose 
what version to run.  The amd64 64-bit version can address more resources, 
but if you are not going to dedicate those resources in excess of 32-bit to 
the VM, you don't need to run the 64-bit version.  Also there are a lot 
less ports in the 64-bit version.

         -Derek



>On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Todor Genov wrote:
>
>|I have ran FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 in ESXi and haven't bumped into any
>|problems so far.
>|
>| When they say "supported" they are referring to service level
>|agreements and technical support should something go wrong, so if you
>|plan to use this in a production environment you need to do some prior
>|testing on your own.
>|
>|Regards,
>|
>|Todor Genov
>|Systems Operations
>|
>|Verizon Business South Africa (Pty) Ltd
>|
>|todor.genov at za.verizonbusiness.com
>|Tel: +27 11 235 6500
>|Fax: 086 692 0543
>|
>|
>|
>|scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
>|> HI all,
>|>
>|>     I'm planning to virtualize a FreeBSD server on a Dell PowerEdge with
>|> embedded hipervisor VMware ESXi 3.5.
>|>     Fbsd isn't listed as supported as guest OS for ESX(i), since version
>|> 4.x.
>|>     Is there any report about problems or impossibility doing that?
>|>
>|>
>|> - Marcelo
>|>
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>- Marcelo
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