Kreslavsky IT blog » Esx http://www.kreslavsky.com News, guides, and tips to antivirus programmes, scripts, and security Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:57:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 P2V Linux OS to VMware ESX http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/06/p2v-linux-os-to-vmware-esx.html http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/06/p2v-linux-os-to-vmware-esx.html#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:22:03 +0000 Gil Kreslavsky http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/06/p2v-linux-os-to-vmware-esx.html

New VMware P2V v4 client allows physical to virtual convert for various Linux distributives.
P2V allows transferring of Linux machines to Virtual VMware ESX compatible.

Currently supported versions are:

 

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10
  • Ubuntu Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x

Other Linux versions can be converted by imaging tools to the following format:image

  • (*.vmc *.pvs *.vmx *.sv2i *.spf *.tib)
  • Microsoft Virtual Pc format  (*.vmc)
  • Parallels Virtualization ( *.pvs)
  • VMware Consolidated Backup (*.vmx)
  • Symantec LiveState Recovery Image (*.sv2i *.sv2)
  • StorageCraft Shadow Stor Image (*.spf)
  • Acronis True Image Backup (*.tib)

 

note:Linux sources should allow root login through SSH.

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In order to enter to VM machine bios settings follow the steps bellow

  1. Navigate to desired virtual machine
  2. Press on “Edit Virtual Machine Settings”
  3. Navigate to Options>Boot Options
  4. In the right side you have 2 options
  1. Power on Boot Delay
  2. Force BIOS setup
  • You can use each one of the first will set system boot delay time and will give you the ability to enter system BIOS – You can set it to 1000 miliseconds
  • The Other one will force entering in to bios on next boot.

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    You connect new ISO image and try to boot from it , but instead booting from Image , VMware loads installed OS , sounds familiar?

    Here what you should check:

    First make sure that CD room or image are selected as “Connected” and “Connect at power on”
    By default VM machine tries to boot first from attached CD device

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    If you still can’t boot navigate to Options>Boot Options and in the right pane under “force BIOS Setup” select "The next time the virtual machine boots, force entry into the BIOS setup screen”
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    After you start VM machine you will be able to access BIOS settings and Edit boot priority.

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    ]]>     http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/05/cant-boot-vmware-esx-virtual-machine-from-cd-or-iso-image.html/feed 1     Install ESX Web Management MKS Plug-in to Firefox 3 http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/03/install-esx-web-management-mks-plug-in-to-firefox-3.html http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/03/install-esx-web-management-mks-plug-in-to-firefox-3.html#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:55:06 +0000 Gil Kreslavsky http://www.kreslavsky.com/2009/03/install-esx-web-management-mks-plug-in-to-firefox-3.html

    Install ESX Firefox Web Management Plug-In for Windows

    1. Download the MKS plug-in file from the Stage Manager server using Internet Explorer from the following address:
      https://Servername/StageManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ActiveXControls/xpihandler.ashx?filename=vmware-mks-windows-ff-3.xpi
      Where <Servername> fill your server hostname.

    2. Rename the extension of the file from .xpi to .zip .

    3. Unzip the file’s contents into %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Firefoxplugins .

    4. Copy ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll to %ProgramFiles%Mozilla Firefox .

    Install ESX Firefox Web Management Plug-In for Linux

    1. Download the MKS plug-in file from the Stage Manager server using wget from the following address:
      https://Servername/StageManager/ControlPanel/Machines/MachineDetails/ActiveXControls/xpihandler.ashx?filename=vmware-mks-linux-ff-3.xpi
      Where <Servername> is your server hostname.

    2. Rename the extension of the file from .xpi to .zip .

    3. Unzip the file’s contents into ~/.mozilla/plugins .

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    You may see that error when you migrate virtual machine between two ESX servers with different hardware.

    Please right click on VM and choose “Edit Options”, select “Options”, select “CPUID mask” and change it to “Hide the NX flag from quest”.

    CPUID

    CPUID

    It will give you more comparability between CPUs but will hurt performance.

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