Comments for SCO Unix on VMware ESX - virtualisation solves a client's problem at http://www.help4it.co.uk , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.help4it.co.uk Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:28:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.help4it.co.uk/home-mainmenu-1/inside-track/SCO-Unix-on-VMware-ESX-virtualisation-solves-a-clients-problem.html#comment-17 I vaguely remember getting that error during one of my attempts, I think it occurs if you install two different copies of the driver. I havent tried it myself yet but I would concur with the first comment and use vSphere4 - its support for IDE disks will make things much easier as you will not need to install a driver. - Tom Finnis Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:38:32 +0100 http://www.help4it.co.uk/home-mainmenu-1/inside-track/SCO-Unix-on-VMware-ESX-virtualisation-solves-a-clients-problem.html#comment-16 Sorry for the double post... Would work first time... I am converting an old Dell box running SCO 5.0.7 and I am running vSphere 4. The physical server is using a PERC controller and I am trying to get the system to load off of the blc controller. I have used the convertor cd to make my image and at the boot prompt I am entering: defbootstr hd=Sdsk link=blc btld=fd(65) Sdsk=blc (0,0,0,0) This results in the following: Loading kernel symbol table, this may take a few minutes bootlocore: Out of low (below 1Mb) memory! No memory for string table No (or cannot load) kernel hd(40)unit symbol table Link failed, press to continue or q to quit: Any ideas on what might be going wrong? Any help is appreciated since I have no knowledge in SCO... Thanks! - Derek DuBois Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:27:59 +0100 http://www.help4it.co.uk/home-mainmenu-1/inside-track/SCO-Unix-on-VMware-ESX-virtualisation-solves-a-clients-problem.html#comment-15 I get out of low(below 1Mb) memory error... original system had a PERC controller and now in the VM I am trying to use the blc... - Derek DuBois Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:21:53 +0100 http://www.help4it.co.uk/home-mainmenu-1/inside-track/SCO-Unix-on-VMware-ESX-virtualisation-solves-a-clients-problem.html#comment-14 I used the convertor cd to image our SCO box and place it in a VM. We are running vSphere 4. The old physical server had a Dell PERC SCSI controller. At the "Boot" prompt I entered "defbootstr hd=Sdsk link=blc btld=fd(65) Sdsk=blc (0,0,0,0)" and get to: bootlocore: Out of low(below 1Mb) memory! No memory for string table No (or cannot load) kernel hd(40)unix symbol table Link Failed, press to continue or q to quit: The box is a SCO 5.0.7 server... Any suggestions as I know nothing about SCO? - Derek DuBois Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:14:14 +0100 http://www.help4it.co.uk/home-mainmenu-1/inside-track/SCO-Unix-on-VMware-ESX-virtualisation-solves-a-clients-problem.html#comment-11 vSphere 4.0 adds support directly for SCO 5.0 and IDE Disk drives. But thanks for the directions, as I'm most likley going to have to attempt a similar migration on 3.5esx as well. - Mike King Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:38:58 +0100