On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:15:37PM -0500, James Ralston wrote: > Has anyone managed to load RHEL 5.1Server as a VMware ESX guest??
For RHEL 5.1Server i386, I've had no problems with either upgrading from 5.0 nor with a fresh PXE+kickstart install (haven't tried DVD nor CD install). We use ESX 3.0.2, IIRC. On a related topic, 5.0 (as well as 4.x, x < 5, IIRC) has a rather nasty bug/feature causing the LSI mpt scsi driver (the one which is used by default for ESX guests) to give up after a few timeouts which apparently occur fairly frequently on any non-trivial I/O load on SAN arrays, causing fs corruption and remounting the fs as readonly. This has been fixed in 5.1; I would stay away from 5.0 on ESX for any kind of production system. http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/31-VMware-ESX-and-ext3-journal-aborts.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228108 http://communities.vmware.com/thread/58121?tstart=0&start=75 http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/release-notes/RELEASE-NOTES-U1-x86-en.html The RHEL4 bugreport: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=197158 -- Janne Blomqvist _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
