vm networking issue and how to get iso onto esxi local storage?

[mikelane]

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

[kjb007]

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

[mikelane]

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.

[kjb007]

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

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Have you installed VMware Tools into the VM?

[mikelane]

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?

[mikelane]

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 ...