I got a esxi 5 installed on a 8gb pendrive, but I want to use all the space left.
I just need to create a really tiny vm, optimized to run on flash.
Isn't production
Anyone got a way?
Maybe...
Uploading a nfsd binary?
Uploading a iscsi target binary?
Doing some virtual datastore?
Using magical commands on ssh?
Help.
I really dont want to buy another sata controller + hdd (there are no hd so small as 8gb now)
No... I mean with the normal USB virtualization introduced in vSphere 4.1
In vSphere 5 is fast enough to run a full USB 2.0 emulation.
As I know is not possible.
There must be a hack, work around...
A way to remove the removable flag from the device
One possible workaround is add the USB storage to a VM and install NFS on it.
But the performance of a USB stick will be really poor.
You mean, iwth vt-d , direct access or whatever is called, but.
You cant create a vm without storage.
I want to do this, like runing a live cd linux distro.
How can I create a vm without datastore?
No... I mean with the normal USB virtualization introduced in vSphere 4.1
In vSphere 5 is fast enough to run a full USB 2.0 emulation.
Hi ESXi does not support using local, internal SATA drives on the host server to create VMFS datastores
that are shared across multiple ESXi hosts.
Yours, Abbie
But still, you need a datastore for
even if vmsd is 0 sized