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How to access datastore from a guest OS posted: Nov 25, 2009 12:13 PM

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venkatrangan59
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Nov 3, 2009
Hi,

I am new to vmware. I started building a Virtual Appliance using VM Studio. It requires an ISO image of the OS to be accessible from the VM Studio virtual appliance.

To get this ISO uploaded, I used vSphere Client and browsed the 'datastore' and uploaded the ISO to a directory under the 'VM Studio' datastore. Now, how is this directory accessed from within the Ubuntu console? What is the URL path for this ISO file?

Thanks.
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Re: How to access datastore from a guest OS

1. Nov 25, 2009 1:01 PM in response to: venkatrangan59
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AWo
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Nov 27, 2003
You need to add a virtual CD-ROM to the guest and point that to the .iso file.


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Re: How to access datastore from a guest OS

2. Nov 25, 2009 11:57 PM in response to: venkatrangan59
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tom howarth
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To access the ISO from your Guest you will need to edit the settings of your guest to point the CD-ROM device to the ISO. to do this right click the guest and select Edit Settings. assuming the vStudio is on ESX the path will be something like /datastore_name/vStudio/path to ISO

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