Boot from the USB drive and you’re all set.

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Download the ISO with drivers from HERE.

Burn to a CD and insert in the drive. Logon to the console as root and mount:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

Browse to /mnt and find the file “INT-intel-lad-ddk-igb-1.3.19.12.1-offline_bundle-185976.zip”

Install the driver:

esxupdate --bundle=INT-intel-lad-ddk-igb-1.3.19.12.1-offline_bundle-185976.zip update

Reboot.

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To fix this browse to your datastore and download your guest’s configuration file <vmname>.vmx to your desktop (or use your root access and open it in vi through ssh). Open it with a text editor and add the following line above your SCSI devices:

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"

So the whole SCSI device section should look like this:

scsi0.present = "true"
scsi0.sharedBus = "none"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
scsi0:0.present = "true"
scsi0:0.fileName = "disk1.vmdk"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
scsi0:1.present = "true"
scsi0:1.fileName = "disk2.vmdk"
scsi0:1.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

Copy the config back to your datastore and start guest OS. You will be asked to confirm changes during post – answer yes to changes.

Disclaimer: Make sure you have a backup before making any change.

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You can actually delete the .vmx files as well but in order to have VMware recreate them you will have to start the “new virtual machine wizard” and use the .vmdk as your disk file. Instead of creating a disk you use an existing.

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To allow root access to logon through ssh in ESX:

• Logon to console as root
• Edit sshd_config: nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change “PermitRootLogin” from “no” to “yes”
• Restart ssh: service sshd restart

To allow root access to logon through ssh in ESXi:

• Open console and press Alt+F1
• Type “unsupported” and enter root password to log on
• Open inetd.conf in vi: vi /etc/inetd.conf
• Find the line that starts with #ssh, uncomment, save and close the file, and then restart services on your ESXi server: /sbin/services.sh restart

To allow non-root access to logon through ssh in ESXi:

• Log on to console: press Alt-F1 (or through root ssh)
• Edit inetd.conf: vi /etc/inetd.conf
• Find this line: “ssh stream tcp nowait root /sbin/dropbearmulti dropbear ++min=0,swap,group=shell -i” and add -w to the end. Save and close the file.
• Create the new users and home directory: useradd -d /home/username -P username
• Reboot

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