Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. The problem or nut we're trying to crack is that we're trying to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and we wanted an inexpensive but very high reliability system with the flexibility to change configurations (switch in/out different VMs) and add/modify services remotely on-the-fly. For example we could upgrade a client from 4.4 to 4.5 along with all the custom apps and client data packaged in a VM. We would grab the old 4.4 VM bring it back to our lab, then upgrade and re-configure it the way we wanted to and drop it back on the ESXi. Then just change the network configs and switch the old for the new all remotely without ever visiting the client
Thanks again all. --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Diana Eichert <deich...@wrench.com> wrote: > From: Diana Eichert <deich...@wrench.com> > Subject: Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501 > To: misc@openbsd.org > Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 7:16 PM > On Wed, 20 May 2009, Obiozor Okeke > wrote: > > > Hi I am hoping to run an ESXi OpenBSD 4.5 image on a > Soekris Net5501 > > appliance and I was wondering if anyone has already > tried successfully > > running ESXi on the Soekris Net5501 before I order the > hardware? > > > > Any advice or comments is appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance > > The better question is, What nut are you trying to > crack? Why would > you even consider running a virtualization system on what > is > effectively a 486? Okay, a 500MHz 586, but still, it's slow > to > start with. > > diana > > Past hissy-fits are not a predictor of future hissy-fits. > Nick Holland(06 Dec 2005)
