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ESXi USB Stick How To from Linux

Quick cheat sheet on how to put ESXi/VMvisor on a USB stick using linux:

  1. Download ESXi
  2. Open the ISO (Archive Mounter works)
  3. Open the image.tgz file
  4. Drill down and locate the VMware-VMvisor......dd.bz2 file
  5. Open the dd.bz2 file, and extract the dd file
  6. Finally from your terminal, execute the following dd command using the file dd file extracted: sudo dd if=extractedfilename.dd of=/dev/USBDEVICE

On a side note, a quick look at GParted usually reminds me of the device name associated with my usb stick.

Tags: 4, vmware, vsphere

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