iAKTOS 5i under ESX 3.5- SCSI disks are "Read Only"

[Scottish Captain]

Greetings to all.

 

I've been trying to get MOSX running as a virtualized host in a VMware ESX environment. I was eventually hoping to get a MOSX 10.5 Server system hacked up and running for some dev & testing.

 

The box that I'm running is a 8-core Xeon E5410 (2.33ghz) system, running ESX 3.5i. I've confirmed that the results are the same under ESX 3.5.

 

Here's what happens in a nutshell:

 

1) Burn iAKTOS to a DVD

2) Insert DVD into Virtual Infrastructure Client system, use a passthrough/exclusive IDE CDROM to the physical drive so the VM can boot (I spent a few hours trying to get iAKTOS or any other release to boot off an ISO image located on the ESX host itself- this does NOT work, you NEED to use a pass-through IDE device on the VI-Client system connected DIRECTLY to a physical disk in the /real/ CD drive)

3) Wait ~5 minutes for iAKTOS to boot

4) Launch Disk Utility

5) Attempt to partition SCSI hard drives- all disk drives present are detected, but marked as "Write Status: Read Only".

 

If I fire up a terminal under the OS X VM at this point and run hdiutil, it just throws errors about "permission denied" and I can't actually partition, or erase my disks. They are detected just fine as SCSI disks on a FusionMPT (LSI Logic) SCSI controller, but they're all marked as Read Only and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to change that.

 

I'm going to try and setup a VM under Fusion and then move the VMDK's to my ESX host, but I don't know if that's going to work or not. In the meantime... Any ideas on how to get the disks to show up as Read/Write?

 

-SC