[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI as ESXi guest

Piotr Kaminski pkam at bloom.pl
Wed Jan 23 23:48:33 UTC 2013


Hello,

after a month I will ask again: do you use OI as a guest system under
ESXi with vmware-tools?

As I wrote a month ago:
 
I have several ESXi 5.0 boxes. I use virtualized openindiana on them. I
always install vmware-tools.
When ESXi 5.1 came out, I upgraded one of my boxes with 5.1 and
vmware-tools inside it (from 8.5 to 9.0).
I was not happy, as OI machine always crashed on shutdown or reboot -
either issued by shutdown command or by vmtools.
After some time, I reverted back to 5.0u1.
Yesterday I upgraded the same box to ESXi 5.0u2 and vmware-tools to 8.6.
I got the same behaviour with OI vm.
I tried the same on completely different box - HP ML350G6. Result was
exactly the same - kernel crash on every reboot/shutdown.
I believe something is terribly wrong and OI151a7 and vmware-tools 8.6
or 9.0 do not work properly.
 
Is it working properly for anyone?

Here is the link to my vmware-forum discussion:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2175644

Regards,
Piotr






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