Building my file sever was a nightmare. Various issues in no particular order.

• VirtualBox causes Solaris host to “pause”
• KVM crashes Linux host when trying to passthrough LSI scsi controller
• ESXI uses a lot of ram
• ESXI requires windows client
• mysql doesn't work through nis (owner permissions)
• setting up a useful solaris zone is a lot of work
• xen can't create any vm. XenUnifiedLookupByName error
• rebooting takes several minutes
• ipmi continual ends the session after 60 seconds
• console redirect doesn't always capture F-keys
• VMWare guest machines can't boot off of passed through hardware