Rolling shells » vmware http://shell.burgas.org All the things i find useful for linux and network. Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:02:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 How to install vmware ESXi update 3 on usb flash. http://shell.burgas.org/2009/01/vmware-esxi-update-3-on-usb-flash/ http://shell.burgas.org/2009/01/vmware-esxi-update-3-on-usb-flash/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:46:57 +0000 admin http://shell.burgas.org/?p=5 For those like me who would like to check ESXi 3.5 update 3 but don’t want to install on a local harddisk. Here’s a good pdf about how to install it on a USB memory key. It’s fairly easy and I just booted my Intel s3000ah with ESXi.

In short:

  1. First get the following tools: 7-Zip(Free), WinImage(Demo)
  2. Download the ESXi ISO
  3. Open the ISO with 7-Zip
  4. Extract “install.tgz”
  5. Open “install.tgz” with 7-Zip
  6. Click on “install.tar”
  7. Browse to “usr\lib\vmware\installer\”
  8. Open “VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-103909.i386.dd.bz2″
  9. Extract “VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-103909.i386.dd”
  10. Open WinImage and go to Disk, click on “Restore Virtual Harddisk Image on physical drive”
  11. Select a physical drive
  12. Select “VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-103909.i386.dd”
  13. And click “yes” to write the DD image to the USB Disk
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