In our small development environment we need a mail server to check that email notifications work. Our Dev environment is 99% isolated from our production network (the only way in is Terminal Services, or Remote Desktop Connection; the only way out is the Local Resource Mapping feature of RDC).
So I thought the best way to provide the developers with email capability would be a virtual appliance.
I looked at rParth's Port 25 and thought that would be the ideal solution. But I'm getting the following:
(last 13 lines)
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Loading jbd.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mouting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
Switching to new root
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!
I did a bit of a google, and found a suggestion that it might be a disktype issue, so change it from BusLogic to LSI (or vice versa).... so I tried that and got the same result (interestingly this idea worked perfectly for another appliance I was taking a look at).
Looking at the console output I'm guessing the "label / not found" is the start of the problems.
I'm running ESX3.0.1 and VC2
I'm more of a win32 sysadmin, but I can follow hints once I've been given a helping hand to point me in the right direction.
I don't necessarily need rPath Port 25 working - but I do really need a mail server - so if someone knows of a better appliance than Port25 then that is fine too...
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Well, I use a free Mail Server called hMailServer http://www.hmailserver.com/ on my Windows host. Works just fine for me, and it's free. 
Well, I use a free Mail Server called hMailServer http://www.hmailserver.com/ on my Windows host. Works just fine for me, and it's free.
