Install Minix on VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi is an industry-leading hypervisor. More importantly, it is free of charge now. You only need to register an account on VMware to get a free license. After downloading the iso, you can start it on a dial, the installation process is very simple. After the installation is complete, the interface is as follows. You can modify the administrator password and network configuration. The main operations and configurations must be completed on another machine (installing the VMware vShpere client. It should be noted that VMware ESXi has high requirements on hardware devices. It seems that General desktop PCs cannot be installed, the VMware ESXi 4.0 Hardware Compatibility List provides a List of compatible Hardware devices that can run VMware ESXi.

 

Open the http://www.bkjia.com/on another machine after the network of ESXi is configured on the console and you will see a page where you can manage VMware ESXi after downloading and installing the VMware-viclient.exe client tool. after starting the VMware vShpere Client, you will find that it is a 60-day trial version. You need to enter the license (although it is free of charge ). VPSee finds the place where the license is entered, not on the menu. In the Configuration tab on the right, choose Software> Licensed Features:

 

After the successful installation of VMware ESXi, a virtual machine was created and Minix was installed. It was supposed to be smooth. As a result, I had a hard time yesterday due to the NIC driver problem. When installing Minix, you will encounter the following problems:

Probing for disks. This may take a short while... AT0-D0: controller not readyAT0-D0: controller not readyAT0-D0: reset failed, driver busyAT0-D1: controller not readyAT0-D1: controller not readyAT0-D1: reset failed, driver busy......Found no drivers - can't partition.Autopart tool failed. Trying again.

The reason is that the default virtual hard disk device created by VMware ESXi is SCSI, and Minix does not support SCSI but IDE. The solution is to Power Off Minix virtual machine, add a Hard Disk Device in Edit virtual machine settings and select IDE (0: 0) in Virtual Device Node. Then, start the virtual machine and install Minix successfully. Note that Minix must be installed with version 3.1.6 or later. Otherwise, you will encounter an annoying NIC driver problem. It took a long time yesterday to locate the problem, I didn't even think that there would be a drive bug, or that the driver was not working at all. I could at least locate the problem right away. I was most afraid that this kind of work sometimes didn't work, anyway, after installing Minix, You need to configure the Minix environment for future operations.

Set static IP Address:

# vi /etc/rc.netifconfig -l /dev/ip0 -n 255.255.255.0 -h 172.16.20.201add_route -g 172.16.20.1daemonize nonamed -L

Start the telnet and ftp services when the system starts:

# vi /etc/rc.netintr -d tcpd telnet in.telnetd &intr -d tcpd ftp in.ftpd &

If you want to install many Minix files, you can Export them as a general Virtual Machine Template after installing and configuring Minix (File-> Export OVF Template on the VMware ESXi main menu... And then use this Template (File-> Deploy OVF Template... ) Deploy multiple Minix virtual machines. Is the 20 created Minix virtual machines: