Can not boot a VM from an ISO stored on NFS share

[Kimbie]

We have setup a NFS share on our Windows 2003 server, to serve out ISO images for the VMs

However if we attached an ISO to a VM and set it to boot from it, it does not find the ISO, just tries to boot from the network, however if we copy the ISO to a local datastore it will boot and install fine.

We have set the NFS share to anonymous access on the Windows server, we have tried it with both read and write permissions but still not luck

Can anyone shed any idea on this

Thanks

Kimbie

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

ESXi will be connecting to the NFS share with the root account. You'll have to map the root login to an account on the Windows server. You can see a sample of the instructions here - http://www.sohoadvisers.com/tutorials/vmware-esxi/connect-esxi-to-windows-nfs.




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[Kimbie]

Your linked worked, have got it booting now

Cheers

Kimbie