I am overjoyed to have esxi up and running and I have a couple of questions that I hope that you can help me with.
1. I used vmware converter to import a ubuntu jeos vm into esxi. This VM was setup with a static IP address which does not work in esxi so i changed /etc/networking/interfaces back to this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
I cannot ping google or see an IP address with ifconfig.
2. I would like to be able to put some iso images on my VMFS storage so that I can configure VMs directy on esxi as I see that my CD drive is not 'supported' once esxi is installed.
Primarily I would like to get some pointers on why I can't get an IP address in my VM though - I have one Intel Pro 1000 MT network adapter as my other PIC slot has my Promise SATA card installed in it for my SATA drive
ESX does not do bridged networking. You'll have to go to the networking configuration section. Create a portgroup on the vswitch properties. In your vm, you'll add a virtual NIC, and link it to the portgroup you just selected. With those in place, you should be able to set either a static address on the network segment your NIC is on, or use DHCP.
-KjB
I am not sure that I understand what you mean ... vSwitch0 already has a Virtual Machine Port Group called VM Network and this works fine with my Windows based virtual machine.
VMNetwork has 56 ports and I only have two virtual machines loaded in to ESXi.
My problem is that when i run ifconfig eth0 does not exist in my ubuntu jeos vm.
Ok, that's a different issue. If you don't see a NIC, then the enhanced virtual NIC may not be working for you. Edit the vmx file, and change vmxnet to e1000.
-KjB
Have you installed VMware Tools into the VM?
I figured it out.
For some reason eth0 was not present after migrating the VM to ESXi but eth1 was and dhcp worked with that :smileygrin:
I guess this question can be deleted if need be?
VMWare Tools in Ubuntu Jeos seems like a whole other issue and I have been trying to get by without installing them.
Most directions that I follow have some error occur at some point during the build and it appears that then open-vmware-tools have been removed by canonical from the repositories ... so I am hoping that there will be a decent set of VMware tools that actually work as they should for Jeos especially considering that Jeos is an OS designed for virtualization under VMware and ESX :smileygrin:
I have not tried the combination of installing VMWare Tools combined with the open-vmware-tools yet though ...