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. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
I run my OKD cluster on a set of VMs in VMware ESXi. My backups consist of shutting down all VMs and then copying them somewhere else – so full shutdown and backup. The cluster setup was done using the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
I got the following error when booting ESXi 6 from a USB key but I believe the same problem is possible for other scenarios. So what I am talking about is you start ESX and it does the initial phase … Continue reading
This exercise is driven by a need to connect my MythTV’s 3 HDHomeRun network tuners to my MythTV server. This is filled with various challenges:My MythTV runs in a VM on a VMware ESXi 6.0 server The ESXi server only … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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: … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading