Date:  Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:10:15 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:06051] Re: NuOnce 4.3 on 64 Bit Vmware ESX
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <008301c6aaf1$9fe5de00$6700a8c0@OfficeKen>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0607131006160.23783-100000 (at mark) nucleus.nacs.net>
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From: Greg Boehnlein

> Been trying to get BQ (4.3 ISO from NuOnce) to install on a Vmware
> ESX 3.0 server, and it keeps crashing on me. Specifically, the error is:
>
> "An unhandled exception has occurred"
>
> For the traceback, please check out:
>
> http://www.nacs.net/~damin/bq43-vmware.jpg
>
> Now.. I suspect this is an issue w/ loading of the LSI Logic SCSI driver
> in Vmware. ESX lets you choose either the BusLogic or LSI Logic drivers,
> so I tried the BusLogic driver but that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> I can peel off plenty of Vmware development servers if anyone wants to
> take a look at this and fix it. This specifically could be helpful for
> those wishing to do BQ on a 64 Bit and/or a Vmware ESX platform. Just let
> me know how I can help debug this..
>
> Incidentally, BQ 4.2 works fine, but I need to find the old 4.2 ISO as I
> removed it. ;)


Greg

Did you ever get this working?

And can you tell us more about the VMWare.

Would that be a good way to offer reseller accounts / Virtual Dedicated 
servers ?
Is that more cost effective than low end servers loaded with BQ?


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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net