Unattended Installation from USB | VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 | Instalación desatendida desde USB

If you are looking for an unattended installation of VMware ESXi 4.1 I strongly suggest you to visit Ivo Bereens blog and follow his post Create a bootable VMware ESXi 5 USB stick in Windows and perform a scripted installation,, this works perfectly fine, also you can use Lili Linux Live USB Creator and make your life easier as this tool do all the work for you, this is tested for ESXi 4.1 update 1, you can get a copy from here. There's also a post regarding ESXi 5 that uses Lili Linux Live USB Creator, also don't forget about PLOP, this tool will help in the testing process as it allows VMware Workstation to boot from USB, Ivo has a post about this (this guy rules, isn't he?).

VNC Connection to VMWare VMs / Conectarse a la consola de las VMs en VMWare mediante VNC

Modify VM vmx file

Add this lines to enable VNC connectivity, password is not necessary but recommended; vnc port needed when having more than one VM that we want to access using VNC (default port is 5900, you can start from this port and add one to every other VM, I start from 5901 because I am used to from  XenServer)

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"

RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "changeme"

RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5901"

Read more: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1246

Modificar el archivo vmx de la máquina virtual a la que deseamos conectarnos utilizando VNC

Agregar las siguientes líneas (recomiendo que sea al final) para habilitar la conexión por VNC, el password no es necesario pero muy recomendable, determinar el puerto es necesario cuando queremos utilizar VNC en más de una VM (el puerto por defecto es 5900, sumarle uno por cada VM, yo comienzo en 5901 por la fuerza de la costumbre en XenServer)

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"

RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "changeme"

RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "5901"

Leer más en: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1246

Javier C. García

VMWare Player: CAD Key Combination through RDP / Combinación de teclas CAS usando RDP

Send Ctrl + Alt + Del (CAD) key combination through RDP

In order of succeeded tries:

Ctrl + RAlt + End (This works like CAD key combination on remote host and VMWare takes it -and nag you about it!)

Ctrl + RAlt + Space then Ctrl + Ralt + INS (this stops VMWare Player from processing the next key and this allow you to succesfully send CAI key combination)

Ctrl + Ralt + INS ( This is the one that should be working in must cases but, in my experience, it rarely does when using Remote Desktop Protocol.

Enviar Combinación de teclas Ctrl + Alt + Supr (CAS)

Ordenanados según las veces que me ha funcionado

Ctrl + Alt Der + Fin (Esto permite enviar el equivalente a CAS al host que corre la VM, funciona, aunque VMPlayer te regaña por usar esta combinación y no CAS)

Ctrl + Alt Der + Espacio (Con esto le decimos a VMPlayer que no procese las teclas presionadas a continuación con lo que es posible presionar Ctrl + Alt sin que desenganche y poder enviar la combinación CAS)

Ctrl + Alt Der + Ins (Esta es la combinación de teclas por defecto, algunas veces trabaja cuando usamos RDP)