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Getting FreeBSD 5.3 (and later) to run under VMware ESX 2.5.1
Problem: Getting FreeBSD 5.3 to run under VMware ESX 2.5.1 presents two major problems: 1) During boot, the VM crashes because of an "unknown operation" 2) During install, FreeBSD says "No disks found"
Solution: 1) Edit the machine.vmx file manually and add these two lines: acpi.present="`FALSE`" monitor_control.disable_apic="`TRUE`" 2) Then change the line scsi0.virtualDev = "`vmxbuslogic`" to read scsi0.virtualDev = "`vmxlsilogic`" FreeBSD should now boot the install CD properly and detect the virtual hard disk. Thanks to RoboDoc for figuring this out :-)
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