Since my memory stick is broken I had to find out how I could carry on with exploring the new futures of ESX 3i. I was lucky; one of my fellow VMware trainers was willing enough to provide me with an image of his USB stick. What I did is use an existing virtual machine and added a one gigabyte hard disk. I downloaded Selfimage and placed the ESX 3i image on the new disk. I disconnected the disk and created a new virtual machine. I have chosen for “other Linux� with one gigabyte memory and two network adapters and connected the ready made “one gigabyte disk� as an existing disk. The last step was powering on the new VM. You see the result in the screen dump.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
ESX 3i running in a VM
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Well, I think I was a bit to enthusiastic. The boot process halts on “Enabling interrupts�. Nevertheless it’s running. Let’s figure out how we can get this baby fully loaded.
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Eric Sloof
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2007-09-19 07:13
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Hey Eric,
What a coincidence. I just finished up a post over at my blog that details how to do this (although I used VMware Fusion on my Mac). With my Fusion VM, it doesn't hang during the boot up process (not sure why you are seeing this). Have a look at the post when you get a chance. I was thinking about duplicating my work with Mac/Fusion on a Windows box with Server or Workstation.
http://scalethemind.blogspot.com
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Thomas Bishop
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2007-09-19 07:56
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Hi Eric!
Do you think you can upload the image to a ftp? I´m really looking forward to start testing 3i. Thanks......
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Johan Lundqvist
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2007-09-19 09:47
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It's only a matter of time before it becomes torrented, I'm surprised and disappointed it hasn't happened sooner, with over 11,000 VMworld attendees...
VMware really should make a freely available version, it would really help everyone demo the software and show what it can do and why it is useful, etc. etc.
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tom
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2007-09-23 15:08
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I received a lot questions regarding a copy of the USB image. Although the carton package doesn’t say anything about copyright I don’t want to bring my VCI status in any danger by providing copies of the VI3i USB key. You just have to wait until VMware releases the software.
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Eric Sloof
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2007-09-19 10:45
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Adding the following lines in the VMX file:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
monitor_contrl_restrict_backdoor = TRUE
monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE
And pressing Shit O in the boot menu for adding the nousbboot at the command line solves the trick, so as Thomas shows on his web site.
I have ESX 3i working on Workstaion right now.
Thanks all.
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Arjan
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2007-09-19 12:02
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I posted a free video on how to run VMware ESX Server 3i inside VMware Workstation. Please check it out-
http://www.happyrouter.com/esx3ibetavideo
Also - I will be coming out with an ESX server video training series in December of 2007. You can learn more at this URL-
http://www.happyrouter.com/esxvideo
I also have the working VMX file available for download at my website.
I hope that this helps someone out!
Thanks,
David Davis, VCP
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David Davis
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2007-11-01 14:31
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