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Just need to setup 2 ESX and one NetApp simulator w/ iSCSI luns.

Just need to setup 2 ESX and one NetApp simulator w/ iSCSI luns.

LOL!  You're gonna lug all that around just for a demo?  We're talking here about giving a presentation, with just your laptop (like almost all presentations are done).

The NetApp simulator is the NetApp OS (data OnTap) that runs under linux.  So I don't see the problem with installing a 3rd vm to do a vmotion demo....

That would work fine. I'll probably use OpenFiler for my test. My poor little HDD is gonna be groaning all the while...

I've tried to vmotion a vm between two "virtual" esx using NFS as shared storage but it fails with time syncing errors (as shown in vmkernel log).

What kind of obscure parameters we have to get a better timekeeping in virtual machines? i've got the very same issues with Sun Cluster, a node panic itself because it can't keep time accurately.

ciao,

Fabio

Anders,

If VT is not essential does that mean it should work on a laptop or PC which does not have a dual core processor?

Although I have made it work on a PC with a dual core processor running Workstation 6 Beta, and I have tried it on a rather older P4 processor machine, it installs VI3 perfectly and infact starts up properly also but it throws up a failure on one service I believe is the storage initialization.

MP

If VT is not essential does that mean it should work on a laptop or PC which does not have a dual core processor?

Yes - but it is awfully slow and therefore nearly unusable.

For some reason it doesn't work on mine even being slower, simply I receive a message about sending a dump to VMware support when I logon as root on the console.

Although the http service starts with a \[OK] I cannot connect to the web interface either because I cannot ping the server. I have configured the VNIC's as e1000 and the disk as LSILogic in the vmx file along with the other special lines as mentioned in this thread.

I will get the exact messages and post them to identify why it is not running for me.

Thanks

MP

I can upgrade my work box to one with an E6700 Core 2 Duo Processor.

Do you think i can get away with 2Gb of RAM?

This is just for learning ESX and loading a VM to see how it all works.

Installing ESX and running one small VM works with 2GB.

Is it really "running" or "crawling" ?

On my laptop ESX 3 boots inside a WS6 VM as fast as on a HP DL585 box with 4 CPUs and 32GB RAM.

The installation of a FreeBSD VM takes a bit longer - but I won't call it crawling.

The VM startup isn't as fast as in a WS6 VM but not that bad.

When it is booted I don't see a big difference to a WS6 or a "real" ESX VM.

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You should of course not start the ESX VM when running with battery power...

I have reinstalled ESX and this is what my vmx file looks like. It is seeming to hang at Loading VMkernel mptscsi_2xx

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "4"

numvcpus = "2"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

memsize = "512"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "ESXDolan.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "E:"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

floppy0.present = "FALSE"

Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

displayName = "ESXDolan"

guestOS = "vmkernel"

priority.grabbed = "normal"

priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE

scsi0:0.redo = ""

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

uuid.location = "56 4d b7 1c af 66 56 81-a7 7a 8a 29 ac 76 5d a0"

uuid.bios = "56 4d b7 1c af 66 56 81-a7 7a 8a 29 ac 76 5d a0"

ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:76:5d:a0"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Are you sure you are running this with WS6?

If yes recreate the VM and make sure you use the WS6 virtual HW version.

some further suggestions:

change guestOS from "vmkernel" to "other"

increase the RAM to at least 1024MB

That's a WS 5 VM - this discussion talks about WS 6 VMs