9/20/2023 0 Comments Vmware player boot from usb![]() ![]() Step-by-step instructions on how to install vSphere Hypervisor on an USB stick without using CD/DVD drive: ![]() What I will show here is how to actually install the Hypervisor on the USB stick, using a virtual machine because I don’t have the final hypervisor host hardware here yet. (If you want to do that please use your favorite search engine with keywords “unetbootin esxi” or something like that.) Note: I will not show here how to extract the installer ISO image on a USB stick for booting and starting the installation process from USB on the desired ESXi host. I guess I’ll just fix the post later if I did something terribly wrong. So basically, I’m here just doing something and I’m not able to even test the results yet :-). I don’t have a CD/DVD drive at hand, and I won’t necessarily have any CD/DVD drive on the host either. I’m doing this on my laptop as I don’t actually have my host platform here yet. My intention is to run vSphere Hypervisor on a desktop-grade PC so that the only harddisk present is used for the virtual servers (guests) and a USB stick is used for the hypervisor itself. I will not likely publish anything totally new but apparently quite many are interested on these pieces of information as well. Anyway, some posts are evidently necessary to document the actions. Or I could be mistaken but you can always correct and enlighten me. Apparently vSphere Hypervisor is the engine that has been known as ESXi. The easy way would be to just run the free VMware Player on the laptop but I want to play with the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor as well. I’m planning to get my own virtual server platform installed at home for testing purposes.
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