VMware – Zoyinc

Open VMware remote console from url

If like me you run a lot of stuff in ESX, then you will know that you can open up the console in the remote This is very handy and opens up VMware Player connected to your VM in ESX. This gives a much better experience than using it through a browser: As handy as… read more…
Enabling copy and paste in ESX VM

I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10. Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It… read more…
Enable ssh in and out of ESX

By default an ESX server doesn’t allow you to ssh to it or ssh from it to another host. Being able to ssh to an ESX host can be very useful to do base unix functions including moving files around and so on. Being able to ssh out and in particular to another ESX host… read more…
Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap

I was setting up an OKD single node cluster and to test if it was up I ran: openshift-install –dir=/opt/okd4/install_dir/ wait-for bootstrap-complete –log-level=debug Then I got the following error messages: https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0: EOF E0104 15:32:18.605736 1642 reflector.go:153] k8s.io/client-go/tools/watch/informerwatcher.go:146: Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap: Get https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0: EOF E0104 15:32:19.607338 1642 reflector.go:153] k8s.io/client-go/tools/watch/informerwatcher.go:146: Failed to list *v1.ConfigMap: Get https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0:… read more…
MythTV on CentOS 7

MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed firstly in CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV then in CentOS 7 VM for WordPress… read more…
CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup

In the post CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV I described how to create a base CentOS 7 VM. This post describes follows on from that post and describes the post installation tasks to make the VM a good solid base for me to run WordPress or MythTV. When setting up a Linux server… read more…
CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV

I have two primary servers I use all the time, the first is the WordPress VM which run the Zoyinc website and secondly a VM that runs MythTV. Both are currently running Fedora – WordPress is on F18 and MythTV is on F16. These were installed in July 2012 and February 2011 respectively. So pretty… read more…
SonicWall VLAN to private physical interface

I had a Windows 10 VM, running inside VMware ESXi 6.0, which I needed to connect to the laptop as shown in the above diagram. In addition I needed both the laptop and VM to be on an isolated LAN which meant neither the VM nor laptop to should be able to access the internet… read more…
ESXi Embedded Host Client – Improving Stability

I use ESXi on a small number of VMs at home and recently moved to some newer hardware. Not really new, they are Lenovo M58 (7479CTO) small form factor. In regards to ESX the biggest factor is the CPU is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz For ESX this CPU is supported up to… read more…
Run ESX from USB on old HP desktop

I have running VMware ESXi servers for years, sometimes at work on servers but recently at home on a whole bunch of older desktop machines. Not too many problems and when I did have problems it was usually about an unsupported network adaptor. Just a few weeks ago I tried to run ESX from USB… read more…