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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SCO and VMware Post 302097324 by Jeroenix on Thursday 23rd of November 2006 09:09:31 AM
Old 11-23-2006
SCO and VMware

Hello all,

I'm trying to run an old SCO 5.0.4 server into VMWare workstation (and later, ESX). I've used Ghost to dump the entire image into the virtual disk, and of course it won't start since the SCSI drivers need to be replaced.

Now I've tried to boot the virtual system with a generic boot/rootdisk, and used the link=blc command to make the kernel aware BusLogic (vmware emulates those). This seems to go well, as I can see the %Sdsk device in the boot screen (see attachment). I can also see a few hd devices in /dev including hd0root, and for example, a 'head /dev/hd02' returns some binary garbage telling me that I'm looking at the raw disk contents.

Now, what I intend to do is to mount the system, try to chroot to it, and adjust the kernel and boot parameters to make the system bootable again. However, I can't seem to mount the hd devices ("cannot stat /dev/hd*). This could be due to my lack of knowledge concerning SCO installation and boot options (all SCO systems I managed were already installed and ran fine).

My questions: How do I proceed in mounting the disks? Should I have created a kernel with BusLogic drivers -prior- to making the Ghost image? Is it even possible with SCO 5.0.4 as I notice that 5.0.7 actually recognises the disk as VMware? Should I use a system specific bootdisk (created on the old physical machine)?

I know there are some good documents on installing SCO in VM on the web, but I've not yet seen a good procedure on virtualizing existing servers..

Thanks for any input you may have.
SCO and VMware-scobootedjpg
 

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NAME
vmmouse_detect - VMware mouse device autodetection tool SYNOPSIS
vmmouse_detect OPTIONS
vmmouse_detect has no options DESCRIPTION
vmmouse_detect is a tool for detecting if running in a VMware environment where vmmouse is used. It exits with a 0 return value if the vmmouse client is enabled, and 1 if not. DIAGNOSTICS
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