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FreeBSD 4.5 Installation Guidelines
Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created a
directory for the new virtual machine and configured it using the ESX Server Virtual
Machine Wizard.
When selecting installation options, be sure to install the kernel source code. It is
needed during installation of VMware Tools.
The Linux emulation support in FreeBSD is insufficient to run the X server provided by
VMware for use on Linux systems running in a virtual machine. The VGA server
distributed with FreeBSD works as expected.
The generic FreeBSD kernel works well.
Note: FreeBSD has a problem probing for the CD-ROM device wdc1. FreeBSD sends
an illegal ATAPI command to the IDE controller and ignores the error status reply. This
results in a delay of approximately one minute each time the system boots.
Setting the Disk Geometry for a FreeBSD SCSI Virtual Disk
If you are running a virtual machine with FreeBSD 4.5 as the guest operating system
on a 2GB or larger SCSI virtual disk, the guest operating system does not boot.
It fails to boot because the virtual disk geometry is not probed correctly by FreeBSD
4.5 when you install the guest operating system. FreeBSD 4.5 installs the boot loader
in the wrong location on the virtual disk. When FreeBSD tries to boot, the FreeBSD
boot loader asks the BIOS for important data that is now on a different section of the
virtual disk, so FreeBSD cannot boot.
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