12-09-2010
Openserver 5.0.6 on VMware
Hi all, I'm looking for some friendly advice on running Openserver 5.0.6 on VMware. Does anybody fancy answering a few questions if I post them?
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Well people are reading my post, so I'll try my questions!
I am planning to implement SCO Openserver 5.0.6 on ESXi 4.1.
I have two initial questions. The first is what type of virtual hard drive to use. It would appear to me that it is better to go for IDE (so long as I don't need a virtual hard drive larger than 128GB) because that would avoid any potential problems with SCSI busy errors. Am I correct?
Secondly I need to decide what type of virtual ethernet card to use. The VMware documentation says I must use E1000 "because SCO Open Server 5.0 does not include suitable network drivers." However, the Flexible card works with the SCO updated PNT driver for AMD PCNet-PCI and this combination appears to be much more reliable than using the 5.0.6 eeG driver with E1000. There is a version 5.1.2 of the eeG driver for 5.0.7 which installs and works on 5.0.6 and which does seems to be much more reliable than the version that SCO list for 5.0.6. However, the PNT driver with the Flexible adapter seems to be slightly faster and from a gut feel I think it is still more reliable than eeG/E1000. The thing is, I don't really want to do an installation which goes against VMware documentation that tells me to use the eeG driver with E1000. I have found a blog entry called "HOWTO SCO P2V in the real life" which starts off by saying use Intel but then has a note saying Flexible Ethernet works too and "seems to work faster," which would agree with my findings. Can anybody help me with my decision? Is anybody using Flexible/PNT with 5.0.6 on VMware in a production environment?
Ps. I would have posted links to the versions I have used, but the forum won't let me post links until I have made 5 posts!
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SYNOPSIS
Section "InputDevice"
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