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Re: Booting from CD and copying ISO images Nov 7, 2008 3:17 AM
I apologize for the very basic questions.
I installed ESXi on an HP DC7700 minitower PC and everything works fine.
I am unable to create an XP VM because I can't access the CD at startup:
- if I configure a CD connected to the host CD it is ignored (how can I make the host mount it???)
Do you have the Connected at startup checked in the properties of the VM Guest? also have you previously booted the XP guest if so the boot order will have changed, restart the guest and click the esc key as the boot sequence starts this will give you the boot menu.
* if I configure a CD connected to the client it is not connected at poweron, so when I manually connect the PXE is already started and failed: I changed the boot order in the emulated BIOS with no result...
it could be that your CDRom is not accessable under ESX. search this forum as there is a BIOS setting that can be set.
How can I copy an ISO image to the host file system?
open your VIC to the Host and browse the datastores, you can upload from there
How can I access the file sistem on the host either from the host itself and from VMware Infrastructure Client?
you can only directly access the file system by either browsing the Datastore as discribed abover or loading the RCLI applicance or application.
Is there any other relevant issue I am missing?
Regards
Marius
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