Comments on: VMware ESX and ESXi – tips and tricks

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:51:59 +0000

Firefox 3.0.11 Windows 7
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Thanks for update!

By: Frank Cabreja

Frank Cabreja — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:02:25 +0000

Internet Explorer 8.0 (Compatibility Mode) Windows Vista
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Starting with ESX 3.5 Update 2, services.sh restart no longer restarts the inetd service. You must type the following command at the console ps | grep inetd and press enter to get the process id for inetd. You will get something like 1299 1299 busybox inetd. The process id is, in this example, 1299. You will then type kill -HUP 1299 and press enter. This restarts inetd. You should now be able to gain root ssh access to the ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or above host. This worked with ESXi 4.0.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:39:02 +0000

Firefox 2.0.0.20 Windows XP
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Correct. It seems to be an internal ESX setting. Personally I didn’t find having a non-root user on ESX helpful.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:51:40 +0000

Firefox 3.0.6 Windows XP
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I found this helpfull, however, it seems esx 3i 3.5.0 build-123629 does not keep /home across a reboot.

adding “mkdir -p /home/username” to /etc/rc.local or something to that effect seems to work ok (but, file will be lost at reboot)