To list the software installed on your ESXi 5.0 Server via CLI: # esxcli software vib list
I accidentally did a passthru of my boot device to a vm. This is a real gotcha because then the Host cannot modify the config. Disclaimer – this could completely hose your system, proceed ONLY if you know what you are doing (or have nothing to lose). So I had to do a little digging […]
I had the problem with my login display on RHEL 6 being wrong. I could not see any of the additional buttons on screen (ie I couldn’t shut down the VM without logging in). Fixing this was more of a problem than it should have been. Finally found a bug report to Red Hat:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586117 Thanks […]
the update command: esxcli software vib install –maintenance-mode –depot \ /vmfs/volumes/host-data/patch/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip dealing with maintenance mode from the command line: vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit vim-cmd /hostsvc/hostsummary | grep inMaintenanceMode
Accessing the VMWare Fusion BIOS is a pain! but the article says that you need to add the following line to your .vmx config file:bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”
On the VM (Linux) Test Everything Review configurations Clean up – get rid of everything that you don’t need (for RPM based Linux): du -sh /home/*; ls -lh /tmp; yum clean all; find . -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; Zero the drive space — on linux: cat /dev/zero > zero.fill;sync;sleep 1;sync;rm […]
Ran into a problem when I was adding a Windows 7 VM to VMWare Fusion. It could not find a driver for my NIC, even after installing VMware tools. Turns out the vmx file did not have the hardware defined: ethernet0.virtualDEV = “e1000” http://communities.vmware.com/message/1606418