Hi,

first I want to thank for this brilliant solution. This is the only way I found so far where you can use a VM like a normal PC without any further hardware.

Now what I am conerned about is how I do upgrades and patches. If I have an upgrade requiring the ESXi host to go into maintenance mode this will leave me with no display. As long as I still have a second computer I will be able to do the upgrade from there and put the ESXi into normal operation mode again.

But what to do without a second pc? Maybe one could do the update with a script (ssh to ESXi host, put a script there which shutdowns all vm's, goes into maintenance mode, upgrades, leaves maintenance mode and reboots). If everything goes well you will be back in a few minutes. However as we all know things tend to go wrong. Therefore I'd wish to have a view on the ESXi console when doing the update.

Is there a way to disable VMDP for the graphics adapter from within a running vm? Or maybe can I alter a config file and then reboot without VMDP for graphics?

Regards,

cipcm