installing xp in esx

[aschwartz]

I have my RIS install (Legacy mode) for xp sp3 running very smoothly. I can get it to pxe boot, then install xp, then install about 6 apps that i have and everything works correctly.

My problem is that this works for physical machines, but I want to test with deploying xp to a VM on an esx host.

I perform the pxe boot and it connects, but I get the dreaded message regarding the hdd not being found. SO apparently i need drivers. I found a site that had a flp image for the LSI and for the buslogic drivers, but when I dropped the cat and sys files into the i386 directory and then restarted the services, it still did not work. Does anyone have an idea of what drivers I should use? I couldnt find anything on the vmware site.

Here is the link that I found the flp images on.

http://tinyurl.com/3zf777

I assume that i am not the first person to do this, so I am sure someone knows what I need. Thanks in advance.

[aschwartz]

I had tried the newest LSI drivers from their site

http://www.lsi.com/obsolete/lsi20320_3157.html

and they still were not recognized. I did more research and it seems that some people are having problems with getting the LSI driver to work.

I tried to create a new VM using the buslogic driver instead of the LSI, and the same thing happened.

Edited October 2, 2008 by aschwartz