first option is best.<br><br>Win2k3 and 2k8 run fine in ESX4 and 5. They also run fine in KVM.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Justin Goldberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justgold79@gmail.com" target="_blank">justgold79@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a vmware esxi 3.5.1 server I inherited from someone else with a<br>
lost password.<br>
<br>
My options are:<br>
<br>
-boot with slax and modify the /etc/shadow and passwd files within the<br>
latest modified state.tgz file, and create another root level user and<br>
I can then change the root password (saving a backup of the file just<br>
in case).<br>
<br>
-null the root password, which I've read on <a href="http://vmware.com" target="_blank">vmware.com</a> can cause<br>
problems (but its a standalone server with no NFS and has been offline<br>
for a year)<br>
<br>
-do a reinstall from cd, which will reset the password and manually<br>
add the datastores back.<br>
<br>
Fdisk -l shows 1 VMFS partition, but I can list files on the auto<br>
mounted /mnt/sda2, sda3, sda5, and sda6 in slax. Also this server has<br>
6 scsi drives.<br>
<br>
I'd blow the data away but it has a licensed copy of vmware. Also I'm<br>
curious what is running on it.<br>
<br>
Also does anyone know if windows 2003 or 2008 runs well within linux vmware?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
<br>
Justin Goldberg<br>
<br>
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