The CDROM on the server is a SATA drive, but even the fixes for SATA CDROM's I've tried don't work.Ĭan anyone help me? This stuff is kinda critical at this point.įirst off, have you tried booting your desktop with the CD to make sure it is really bootable? Some times the ones MS gives you aren't.

I have tried to telnet to the IP of the server on port 22 to see, and it can't connect as if it's not listening on that port. It simply says Host refused or host not found.

I then tried to do what a lot of the forums said and copy the ISO over directly to the datastore on the server using WinSCP and Veeam FastSCP, and neither one works. I have gone into the BIOS and told it to boot from CDROM, still no luck. iso extension, still PXE boot and Operating System not found messages. I have told it to browse to the ISO files I have from MS and even renamed them and lowercased the. Under the VM hardware options, I have tried to point the CDRom to the server CD Rom drive to boot, but it still goes to the PXE boot. I have browsed these boards and the Internet, and I still cannot get this to work.

But I can't get either a CD/DVD or ISO to boot to load the guest OS on the VM. I have created a new virtual machine without issue. I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with VMWare ESXi 3.5 loaded up without issue. Ok, I'm relatively new with VMWare and ESXI 3.5, but I've been working on this issue for hours with no answer.

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