Installing VMWare ESXi 5.5 with 2GB RAM

Installing VMWare ESXi 5.5 with 2GB RAM / Cài đặt ESXI 5.5 trên máy cấu hình Ram 2GB và Dùng Card Lan Realtek

How to install VMware vSphere 5.5 with 2GB of RAM instead of the usual 4GB limit.

Mount the ISO (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64.iso) and boot it up. At the welcome screen press ALT+F1 ://Thực hiện bấm ALT+F1 khi thấy lời chào để vào giao diện dòng lệnh

Once you have pressed ALT+F1 the screen will change to this// Giao diện dòng lệnh hiện ra

Login as root and no password:// đăng nhập với tài khoản root và nhấn phím Enter để vào.

Navigate to the location of where the file which we want to modify resides://

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/weasel/util

We will remove the compiled version of the check utility:

# rm upgrade_precheck.pyc

We have to move and copy the file to bypass some permissions issues:

# mv upgrade_precheck.py upgrade_precheck.py.old

# cp upgrade_precheck.py.old upgrade_precheck.py
# chmod 666 upgrade_precheck.py

Now we open the file in VI and modify it:

# vi upgrader_precheck.py

At 45% (pressing PAGE DOWN key on your keyboard:

You will see the following:

Press i on the keyboard and replace the 4 with a 1:

Then press ESC on your keyboard and type :wq and press Enter:–9

We’ll now search for the process which has the pre-check running and kill it (you will have a different PID so use that):

# ps -c | grep weasel // xem số ở dòng python để thay cho số 34382
# kill -9 34382

Then you will be back at the installation screen to proceed with the installation: