Running under VMware ESX 3.0?

whogoeson

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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 12:01

Hi
Is it possible to run the Gallery appliance under VMware ESX 3.0, and if so - how is it done?

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fryfrog

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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 12:49

At first, I was under the impression it was possible.

But I have since learned that ESX requires *SCSI* drives? Is that right? Anyway, the current image uses IDE. I've spoken with some of the rPath people and they learned this about 2 days before I did and the person I talked to believed someone was working on resolving the issue.
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whogoeson

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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 12:54

Sounds nice.. Will the "new" appliance be available from this website?

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h0bbel
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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 13:05

I haven't tried yet, I will tomorrow at work though. I could sucessfully import an appliance and convert it to an ESX virtual machine by using the VMimporter, but we might run into problems with IDE vs SCSI (LSI or BusLogic).

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fryfrog

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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 13:07

I will probably wrap up a new release when rPath include the vmware-tools *and* solves the scsi vs. ide issue.
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h0bbel
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Posted: Mon, 2006-09-11 13:17

Yeah, that would make a lot of sense to do. :)

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Posted: Tue, 2006-09-12 06:41

I was not able to convert the existing image with VMimporter, it just fails right after it starts. Not sure if the problem is ide vs scsi, or something entirely different.

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whogoeson

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Posted: Tue, 2006-09-12 14:08

Then we will have to wait, for the new release from rPath?
 
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Posted: Tue, 2006-09-12 14:54

We'll have to wait and see, the most pressing issue is probably the IDE vs SCSI one, since converting the existing appliance to VMWare Workstation format worked without problems.

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