That's an interesting idea. I had completely forgotten about ESXi. The only issue is that the machine is only a 32-bit machine, and therefore I will need to use ESXi 3.5.
They even have specific distributions of ESXi 3.5 for HP, IBM and Dell. I've downloaded the dell one and will give it a try tonight. I hope your experience with ESXi 4 will carry back to 3.5.
I have to say that I'm somewhat incredulous that this openldap problem still exists. The bugs that veronica referenced date back to *2006*. How can the openldap/xen developers leave such a crucial bug unfixed and with no workaround for so long?
That being said, the bug veronica posted has a status of fixed, so I'm confused. Is it fixed or isn't it?