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hstewie said:
hstewie said:TheAngryDog said:
Yeah thats my thoughts too - I cannot install that until the Guest OS is installed though can I?
Ah yeah with you now - I've also had that "joy" with certain OS's until you get the thing installed so you're in a position to get the tools on.You get used to it
jjlynn27 said:
Get couple of 4gb usb drives stick one in, install esxi on it, configure it as you like it, then make a duplicate onto the spare one. Keep spare one safe as the first time you have 'unclean' shutdown you'll not be able to boot from the usb in-use.
How is best to make a duplicate of it? As surely it will need to be bootable?f
king hate VMWare right now lol. Installed VMWare Tools yet the mouse still does nothing.Tried to enable RDP so I can remote onto it from my laptop (in same IP Range) yet I cannot connect to it.
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king rage!!I'm a bit surprised that the tools haven't sorted the mouse issue.
For the connectivity issues, walk don't run, check the basics like Windows Firewall, and being able to ping stuff on the same subnet from the VM - ESXi won't do anything so in a really simple setup where you have a single virtual switch and a single port group, it's almost certainly an issue with the guest Windows OS.
For the connectivity issues, walk don't run, check the basics like Windows Firewall, and being able to ping stuff on the same subnet from the VM - ESXi won't do anything so in a really simple setup where you have a single virtual switch and a single port group, it's almost certainly an issue with the guest Windows OS.
Ah now I had a really weird issue when I used the customisation wizard when creating the VM where RDP just wouldn't work after I'd created it.
I spent no end of time on it as it was literally an "out the box" install of Windows, yet I reinstalled without using the customisation wizard and it simply worked.
Does "netstat -an" from in your VM show that it's listening on 3389?
I spent no end of time on it as it was literally an "out the box" install of Windows, yet I reinstalled without using the customisation wizard and it simply worked.
Does "netstat -an" from in your VM show that it's listening on 3389?
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Ah now I had a really weird issue when I used the customisation wizard when creating the VM where RDP just wouldn't work after I'd created it.
I spent no end of time on it as it was literally an "out the box" install of Windows, yet I reinstalled without using the customisation wizard and it simply worked.
Does "netstat -an" from in your VM show that it's listening on 3389?
I'll check it tomorrow. Ive given up for the day, too hot, too tired lolI spent no end of time on it as it was literally an "out the box" install of Windows, yet I reinstalled without using the customisation wizard and it simply worked.
Does "netstat -an" from in your VM show that it's listening on 3389?
jjlynn27 said:
Get couple of 4gb usb drives stick one in, install esxi on it, configure it as you like it, then make a duplicate onto the spare one. Keep spare one safe as the first time you have 'unclean' shutdown you'll not be able to boot from the usb in-use.
Have a look at vmware kb2032823 on kb.vmware.com, when you set esxi to boot from USB it creates a small ramdisk to hold working files and system logs. Bearing in mind on a home brew esx host you're always short of RAM it's advisable to follow the kb and create a persistent area on a datatype to stop those logs eating system ram. We do this even on large esx hosts 256GB plus of ram, as we can read logfiles after a system crash that we would loose otherwise.
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51mes said:
Have a look at vmware kb2032823 on kb.vmware.com, when you set esxi to boot from USB it creates a small ramdisk to hold working files and system logs. Bearing in mind on a home brew esx host you're always short of RAM it's advisable to follow the kb and create a persistent area on a datatype to stop those logs eating system ram.
We do this even on large esx hosts 256GB plus of ram, as we can read logfiles after a system crash that we would loose otherwise.
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Excellent, very much appreciated. All changed.We do this even on large esx hosts 256GB plus of ram, as we can read logfiles after a system crash that we would loose otherwise.
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