Starwind iscsi target (free edition) install problem

[samu76]

hi,
i am sorry for my bad english, but i hope that you will understand me, and help me

I installed starwind on an xp home edition (sp3) (real pc) but the starwindservice got me the problem that isn't a win32 valid application

so I installed xp prof sp3 in a virtual machine (vmvare player), but i got the same error.

In the specificatione to where install starwind, it was write "any modern windows".... i was looking for a solution in internet, but i didn't find nothing

Can you help me?

Thank you

Samu

[anton (staff)]

I guess you're trying to install 64-bit StarWind on top of 32-bit OS. Use 32-bit StarWind in such a case or replace your OS with 64-bit one.

[samu76]

thank you for the reply

the o.s. are both 32 bit
and the starwind i think is 32 bit (the link to download application is same for 32 and 64 bit... in the manual "getting started" is wrote: The setup file is unified for x86 and x64 so you do not need to worry about the platform compatibility.)

Or i can "force" the starwind application in win32 modality?

[anton (staff)]

You can install only Management Console on XP. Installing service itself is not supported. Vista or Windows 7 is required. Or any server OS starting from Windows 2003 Server R2.

[samu76]

Ok thank you

I don't understand how i can create a host (on the windows xp iscsi target without service)

edit:

ok ok i will install a windows seven... but you have to delete the words "any modern windows" in the manual

[anton (staff)]

Windows XP is not modern desktop OS. We would update the page telling XP could be used for Management Console however. To avoid confusion.

[gigel]

Dear Sir,
I registered just to tell you "up yours" when you say windows XP is not a modern OS. Just because microsoft DESPERATELY wants to obsolete it does not mean it actually is obsolete.
By the way, what API are you using that is available on w2k3 and NOT available in xp? I can bet for 20$ I can get any eastern european computer student to dissasembly your stupid .exe and patch it to run on xp.
Thanks.

[anton (staff)]

We're not amateurs here. We're doing serious business. Nobody whom we consider as a customer runs XP in production.
And I don't want to spend 3-4 weeks to re-run whole bunch of automated tests and delay time-to-market for new release naturally just to keep few geeks happy.

Dear Sir,
I registered just to tell you "up yours" when you say windows XP is not a modern OS. Just because microsoft DESPERATELY wants to obsolete it does not mean it actually is obsolete.
By the way, what API are you using that is available on w2k3 and NOT available in xp? I can bet for 20$ I can get any eastern european computer student to dissasembly your stupid .exe and patch it to run on xp.
Thanks.

[gigel]

whoa, you just won my respect by actually answering instead of deleting my outrageous language post and banning me

now that we are friends, let me ask a serious question: if this is a free product and you're earning from serious clients, why not just uncheck that damn checkbox that restricts the build to run on xp and simply tell those few geeks that the product is unsupported on xp, but they are free to technically install it if they deliberately choose to have a horrible experience?

[anton (staff)]

Because we do use some things missing from XP (and now original 2008, not R2).
So technically it's not a simple extra check not to run under XP - it's a real deal. So...
Assuming there's a real demand we CAN back-port to run even under 2000 (ending
with own XML parser and setup app for example), but we see no sense in it... That's
the point, and not do we care about active MS support or not.