IT Systemelektroniker & Master of Science, IT Security, Networks, Embedded Systems, Docker Campus Ambassador and Raspberry Pi Geek
Works only with dynamic HDDs!
1. Backup!
2. Remove old / unused Packages
3. Remove downloaded Packages: sudo apt-get clean, Remove only old downloaded Packages: sudo apt-get autoclean
4. "ZeroOut" unused Space: cat /dev/zero > zero.dat ; sync ; sleep 1 ; sync ; rm zero.dat
5. Under GUI: "sudo vmware-toolbox" and use shrink on "/"
6. Under VIClient: Defrag
After installing Ubuntu Server on Vmware ESXi, I couldn't find a NIC:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces...
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up eth0.
Problem is that the ethernet MAC addresses are cached.
To remove the cache values:
sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
Reboot, and it should work.
Other NIC files:
* /etc/hosts - change ip address and hostnames
* /etc/hostname - change hostname
* /etc/network/interfaces - change ip address
Under Debian necessary:
apt-get install autoconf automake make psmisc gcc
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
Short:
tar -xzvf VMwareTools-######.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
vmware-tools-config.pl
Long:
Viclient, Connect to VM
Menu "VM/Install VMware Tools"
Tools are mounted to Cdrom
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
tar zxvf VMware-Tools-xxxxxx.tar.gz -C /opt/
cd /opt/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl