I needed to mount a CDROM drive in order to grab older NIC drivers for my Motherboard. It has 2 Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controllers onboard. VMware stopped support for these as of ESXi 5.0. T
Category: ESX
ESX
Another big source code leak, this time VMWare ESX, software which I’m sure most of the readers here have used at some point (I know I have). There was a time back in 2006 when VMWare Rootkit
ESXi 3.5 does ship with the ability to run SSH, but this is disabled by default (and is not supported). If you just need to access the console of ESXi, then you only need to perform steps 1 –
List information about a VM vimsh -n -e “vmsvc/getallvms” See a summary of the current host configuration vimsh -n -e “hostsvc/hostsummary” Enter maintence mode vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/mainten