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Installing, Configuring and Upgrading ESX Server

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Alternatively, on the console operating system, you can use the vmkfstools

command, or you can change the permissions and owner directly on the files in

/vmfs using the Linux chmod and chown commands.

Updating Virtual Machine Configurations

After you upgrade from ESX Server 1.0 or ESX Server 1.1 to ESX Server 1.5, you may

want to update one setting in each virtual machine’s configuration file to take

advantage of new virtual hardware features supported by ESX Server 1.5. The key new

feature is support for up to 3.6GB of memory inside the virtual machine.

Note: If you are using virtual disks in nonpersistent mode, you must temporarily

switch to persistent mode to make these changes. If you are using repeatable resume,

you must then recreate your resume point as described in Enabling Repeatable

Resumes on page 191.

To take advantage of the new virtual hardware features, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the VMware Management Interface as a user with proper permissions

to manage the virtual machines.

2. On the overview page, point to the terminal icon for each virtual machine in turn

and choose Edit Configuration. On the Configure VM page, click Use Text

Editor.

3. Find the line that begins with config.version. Change it to

config.version = 6

4. Click Save Changes.

5. Click VMs on <hostname> to return to the Overview page.

6. Repeat the process for each virtual machine.

7. Launch the remote console and power on each virtual machine in turn.

8. As the virtual machine starts, you see a dialog box with the message “The CMOS

of this virtual machine is incompatible with the current version of VMware ESX

Server. A new CMOS with default values will be used instead.”

Click OK.

9. The guest operating system may detect new virtual hardware and install drivers

for it. Respond to any messages as you would if upgrading the hardware on a

physical computer.

10. When the guest operating system is running, install the new version of VMware

Tools, following the instructions in Installing VMware Tools and the Network

Driver in the Guest Operating System on page 73.

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