Keeping with my recent trend of ESXi howto’s I thought i would through something up on cloning VM’s. Despite being one of the most useful features of using virtual hardware for labs it at first seems completely absent from ESXi. But though not quite as easy as a right click it is possible. Note: Though [...]
Step by step on installing VMware tools on a GUIless Linux install. Note: the only real gain here is improved network drivers. Note2: Every thing here after installing the RPM must be done from a local console or bad things will happen. [ROOT@Skynet]# mkdir /cdrom [ROOT@Skynet]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom [ROOT@Skynet]# rpm [...]
Hit this error at work today installing ESXi on a Dell Optiplex seems to be common with them. Ether Dell is preventing the cpuid from being read or not reporting it properly. Following the 3 steps below will let the installer skip the cpuid check and proceed with the install. At the initial bootloader screen [...]
21May09
Install ESXi 3.5 to an IDE drive
Install ESXi 3.5 to an IDE drive By default, if the ESXi install can not find a supported device to install to, then the installer will quit with the error message: “Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to.” If it is the case that the IDE [...]
