{"id":38488,"date":"2009-01-12T21:14:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2009\/01\/12\/esx-3i-embedded-how-to-make-a-usb-key-bootable-with-the-hypervisor-par-excellence\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:06:54","slug":"esx-3i-embedded-how-to-make-a-usb-key-bootable-with-the-hypervisor-par-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2009\/01\/12\/esx-3i-embedded-how-to-make-a-usb-key-bootable-with-the-hypervisor-par-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"ESX 3i Embedded: How to make a USB key bootable with the Hypervisor par excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:it--><a href=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/esx3i1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" title=\"ESX3I\" src=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/esx3i1.jpg\" alt=\"ESX3I\" width=\"198\" height=\"165\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/usb-logo1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101\" title=\"usb\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vmengine.net\/vmengineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/usb-logo1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"usb\" width=\"90\" height=\"50\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article is a guide on how to always have your version of the ESX hypervisor in your pocket and be able to try any system if it boots with VMware&#8217;s flagship hypervisor, the ESX 3i free version with no limits of use.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, you need to have the version that can be downloaded from the VMware <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/tryvmware\/?p=esxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Then get a USB stick of at least 750 MB<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winimage.com\/download.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The winimage<\/a> software to create the boot from the USB<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winimage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7-zip<\/a> software to unzip the files we need<\/p>\n<p>Open the ISO image downloaded from the VMware website with Winimage or 7-zip<\/p>\n<p>VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.iso<\/p>\n<p>Open the install.tgz file and extract the install.tar file<\/p>\n<p>Open the install.tar file, again with 7-zip and extract the file<\/p>\n<p>\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/installer\/VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.dd.bz2<\/p>\n<p>Always open it with Winimage and extract the file VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0_Update_3-123629.i386.dd<\/p>\n<p>This file is our image that must be copied to the flash drive, now opening Winimage (as administrators) and selecting the item:<\/p>\n<p>Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive,<\/p>\n<p>Then select our pen-drive and finally the extracted .dd image and return it to the pen-drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winimage1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102\" title=\"winimage\" src=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winimage1.jpg\" alt=\"winimage\" width=\"500\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winimage1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/winimage1-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We thus have our bootable USB stick with the ESX3i server Hypervisor, ready to host our virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a guide on how to always have your version of the ESX hypervisor in your pocket and be able to try any system if it boots with VMware&#8217;s flagship hypervisor, the ESX 3i free version with no limits of use. 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