After the recent change on VMware ESXi there gonna be a lot of people using whiteboxes, in VMware terms, whitebox is a machine which is not officially supported but ESX works on this hardware and now that ESXi is a free product maybe you gonna build one of this machine…
http://ultimatewhitebox.com/ is gonna be a reference database for compatible hardware.
VM4all is a VMware tools repository that every VMware products user must have on his bookmark!
I found a link with a very nice and useful guide with commands to administer VMware ESX 3, there are commands like:
esxcfg-info
Produces an enormous amount of information about the ESX host. You really need to pipe this to a file for closer examination!
[root@esx1host root]# esxcfg-info >esxinfo.txt
and much more!!!
http://b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm
and if you are still running VMware ESX 2.x, there is a guide for that version too!
http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware.htm
I try a few times to install Windows XP in my ESX test machine at home without success…. WinXP lack of LSI Logic and BusLogic drivers so the install stop when is trying to find a HardDisk to be installed. The solution ? http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-creating-a-windows-xp-vm-and-getting-error-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-installed-in-your-computer
