I am sure a number of other people have this requirement, but I haven't yet been able to find a satifactory solution.
If you have a VM that is isolated (it's virtual NICs are disable or on a network not accessible to your client machine) and you need to copy a file to (or from) this VM from/to your admin workstation, how can you do this ?
When running remote console to the VM you can obviously map your local CD or Floppy and transfer files this way, but I would ideally like to be able to mount a local workstation directory as a virtual CD or Floppy to my local machine, and then be able to map this a "drive" as a CD or floppy for the VM, giving me unrestricted read/write transfer of files between the VM and my local workstation through the console session.
I am not talking about mounting a ISO as a drive in a VM, I am talking about a way of facilitating file transfers between a VM and a fat machine that have no direct network connectivity and I am talking about a console to the VM (launched through the vSphere client), not a console session on the ESX host.
The only way I can see of achieving this at the moment would be to have a "helper VM" - put this on a shared network with the VM, copy the files, then disconnect from this network, move VM to the production network and copy files from helper to local fat machine. This seems a long winded way of doing it - so does copying the file via an physical floppy or CD mapped from the local machine.
