From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.28]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1834964 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:59:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD3ED20.7040807@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:59:44 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] [eCS] MPTS? was MPTN? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi... On 10/12/09 08:12 pm, Steve thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>>>> I looked in the *.vmx file and found this: >>>>> >>>>> scsi0:0.present = "TRUE" >>>>> scsi0:0.fileName = "eCS 2.vmdk" >>>>> scsi0.present = "TRUE" >>>>> scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic" >>>>> buslogic.noDriver = "FALSE" >>>>> >>>> OK, that's a problem in the conversion program. >>> I'm going to ask VMWare support about it. The licenses my old boss >>> bought ought to buy him something! I'll send them all the files >>> zipped up. >>> >> Just checking to see if you happened to make any headway with this, >> Steve. > Not really. I asked VMWare if they wanted the files, they said they > didn't need them, and explained that the SCSI drives were virtual > devices and do not need ( nor would they benefit from ) real SCSI > drivers. When I really thought about it, that made perfect sense. > Indeed. Virtualization is sometimes elusive to grasp, particularly when thinking of mapping to physical devices. > Eventually, after WAY too many failed attempts at installing, and WAY > too much time wasted waiting for the ISA snooper to finish, I threw in > the towel. LOL! Been there; done that. Better luck next time around. ;-) I spent some time trying to get eCS to install under XEN on openSuSE 11.1. Yech. As I didn;t try any other OS, I'm not sure whther the failure was on the part of XEN to properly boot eCS *or* simply something broken in my XEN configuration (which might lead to the same result with *any* OS). One day, when I'm waiting for something to finish, instead of watching paint dry, I'll probably have another go at it. Cheers. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Secure, stable, operating system www.ecomstation.com -------------------------------------------------------------