Comments on: VMware vSphere – Now Available for Trial and Download!

By: FillDee

FillDee — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:03:27 +0000

Have you any idea what the USB Controller virtual device allows you to do ? I was hoping for full speed USB support for the VM’s by plugging into the host USB port, but no such luck

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:32 +0000

Hi there,

I have a brief post drafted up (just need to finishing tweaking it) that outlines how to create a bootable ESXi 4.0 USB pen drive as I think the change in ‘dd’ file location will catch a few people out. I had to have a hunt around for it initially.

Thanks – and any suggestions for topics or the site in general always welcome.

By: FillDee

FillDee — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:51:14 +0000

Yeah, found that after I posted my reply.

VMWare like to put there compressed files in another in another in another …… etc don’t they

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:43:04 +0000

Thanks for the answer Phil,
But I found the solution…. VMWare changed the location of the VMWare-VMVisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2 file within the ISO. This file is now located in the image.tgz file instead of install.tgz. For the rest building a Bootable USB is indeed the same.

Thanks for the help,

Dave

By: FillDee

FillDee — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:28:47 +0000

Dave,

I haven’t made an ESX4i USB key yet, but it you make a 3i one and then boot your server from that and use the new Host Update Utility (option to install during new vShpere client install), it upgrades just fine.

Phil

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:28:02 +0000

You said ESX4i could be set on a USB like ESX3i, but the infrastructure is totally different then 3i.
How did you managed to create a bootable USB version?

Thanks,

Dave