Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Accessing file in VM (ubuntu) from ESXi Datastore


  1. Select the files to be moved from local device to ESXi server datastore.

  2. Make sure that the files are .iso format
  3. Upload to ESX. data-store

  4. Then, goto VM (Ubuntu)
  5. Select the CD/DVD and ESXi datastore, where .iso file is located

  6. In the datastore, select on .iso file
  7. Now, goto terminal in Ubuntu 
                                               sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom
                                               mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Now files located in .iso file will be available to Ubuntu.

No comments:

Post a Comment