Disabling PXE boot

[Kosi_Ama_Kosi]

Does anyone have an idea how to stop and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 virtual machine from tring to boot PXE (network boot)?

[depping]

Every VM has a BIOS and you can disable pxe boot in there. just press f2 when the vm boot and look for the bootup section and disable the nic boot.

Duncan

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[weinstein5]

Theonly reason why it would PXE boot is because it did not find anything else to boot from - I would first investigate why it is not booting from the cd hard disk or floppy - but Duncan's is correct -

[Peter_vm]

You can also remove virtual Ethernet Adapter from virtual machine configuration. It won't have network adapter to use for PXE boot.

[Kosi_Ama_Kosi]

The problem was with my CD/DVD ROM. For some reason, VMware cannot see it. So, I IOS'd everything and was able to install the client VMs. Now I have to find out why ESXi cannot see my host DVD

[Peter_vm]

The problem was with my CD/DVD ROM. For some reason, VMware cannot see it. So, I IOS'd everything and was able to install the client VMs. Now I have to find out why ESXi cannot see my host DVD

So ESXi is not your host?

[duckduck]

I have the same problem I have a machine that's been copied off a laptop and needs to have a "vm" bcd and need a way to get into bios because pxe doesn't work on my system as those devices are NOT PRESENT, and I accidentally have pxe booting in vmware please post fix.

[Carl_Baran]

I Can't Find the "Disable NIC Boot" Options in my VMware

Where is "Disable NIC Boot"??

[scott28tt]

@Carl_Baran 

"Network boot from Intel E1000"

[Arthos]

Please try changing the bios type [types are UEFI and legacy bios] of VM and then try booting from the DVD or ISO. It should work then.

Upvote, if it helps. 

[Carl_Baran]

I Booted form ISO, so it Helps, I choose ISO, Because i Don't have a Windows Installer Disc.