VMWare storage

[TheAngryDog]

bhstewie 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

Thank god for arrow keys

[TheAngryDog]

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?

fking 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.

fking rage!!

[TheAngryDog]

Yeah the mouse and vmtools is really annoying

Firewall is turned off on the guest os. I can ping it, but that's it. I havent set a domain name for the os yet either.

[TheAngryDog]

bhstewie 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 lol