New Blog Server

I really wanted to virtualize my blog server / mail server. I also really wanted to run it on FreeBSD 6.0. Unfortunately, using ESX server in Engineering, I can’t do that, because FreeBSD 6.0 won’t run in ESX server. The VMachines hang, with some kind of “Function Not Implemented” error. The same thing happens in FreeBSD 5.4. The most recent officially supported FreeBSD by ESX server is 4.10. We only run GSX server in production at the moment, and it will run FreeBSD 6.0, but I want to make my vmachines portable between VMware versions, so that I have some flexibility in the future when we may change our VM engine. That means I have to re-do all my figuring out of my server in FreeBSD 4.10. Which means it may take a while longer to get the new blog server working, including comments.