Is this PC useful as an ESXi 3.5 server?

[D_e_s]

I am trying to install ESXi 3.5 on this PC. Unfortunately, I have run into the "failed to find device to write to" problem and before I spend more effort on the problem I would like to know if the PC can provide a viable service. It has a 3G P4 and 3G or RAM. This is not for production purposes, more as a home server that I can learn on.

Cheers, Des

[mehul96]

Des,

A better way of verifying is to look at VMware's hardware compatibility guide for the release you intend to install!

http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html

Mehul

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[Troy_Clavell]

check . Dave has put together a great list of whitebox hardware

[vxxxbazaaz]

can it be booted from usb flash drive? sometimes the drives show up from the bootable drive but can't be installed to from the install cd.

[hillda01]

I think ESX needs to be able to write to a SCSI disk.

Has that PC got an IDE hard disk controller.