RAIDiator-x86 4.2.28 | VirtualBox image #notsupported

mdgm wrote:
I don't think it could be made to work in ESX without a fair bit of work. The code that would need to be changed would probably include stuff in stripped binaries.

Thanks for your reply.

I don't believe that is the case here. Since the x86 version clearly runs in VirtualBox without any modification of the underlying binaries for that particular virtualisation platform, I can't see any reason it won't run under any other virtualisation platform that emulates x86 hardware, including ESX.

Sure, there will be missing "hardware" (the LCD screen for example), but that is also true in VirtualBox. But given that the firmware will run in VB despite the missing hardware that would be found on a real ReadyNAS product, it should also run in ESX (assuming VB doesn't emulate some specific bit of hardware that is absolutely required for it to work - like the flash memory).

If there is specific hardware that VB can emulate that ESX cannot, then I can understand the OVA having a 'requirement' on VirtualBox hard coded into it. But if it's bog standard stuff, i'd really appreciate a 'generic' OVA that can be run on *any* virtualisation product - hence my post :)

Cheers.