On Sat, 10 May 2008, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I've been dealing with VMware to run SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 for legacy software,
> and for various reasons it's making me unhappy.
>
> I've got serious experience with Xen, but don't have a host with full
> virtualizaton capable hardware that I can test ideas on. Is anyone out there
> running a recent version of Xen on anything and care to try to get an install
> working?
>
> See, installing Xen 5.0.6 on VMware seems to require using the 5.0.7 boot
> floppy image and manually installing BusLogic SCSI adapter drivers. But the
> Xen setup tools don't include options for setting this up from the command
> line, and I'm short of time to take my VMWare server down and experiment.

What problems are you having? Mine seems to run really well I am using
SATA disks.

I have this in my osr507.vmx file.

#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "256"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "osr507.vmdk"
ide0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/scd0"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "osr507"
guestOS = "other"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"
autostart = "poweron"
ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 00 a0 66 37 25 64-bf 33 08 d3 aa 9f 18 b6"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 00 a0 66 37 25 64-bf 33 08 d3 aa 9f 18 b6"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:9f:18:b6"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

usb.present = "FALSE"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "FALSE"

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