[ale] Vmware esxi 3.5 root password lost

[Jim Kinney]

first option is best.

Win2k3 and 2k8 run fine in ESX4 and 5. They also run fine in KVM.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a vmware esxi 3.5.1 server I inherited from someone else with a
> lost password.
>
> My options are:
>
> -boot with slax and modify the /etc/shadow and passwd files within the
> latest modified state.tgz file, and create another root level user and
> I can then change the root password (saving a backup of the file just
> in case).
>
> -null the root password, which I've read on vmware.com can cause
> problems (but its a standalone server with no NFS and has been offline
> for a year)
>
> -do a reinstall from cd, which will reset the password and manually
> add the datastores back.
>
> Fdisk -l shows 1 VMFS partition, but I can list files on the auto
> mounted /mnt/sda2, sda3, sda5, and sda6 in slax. Also this server has
> 6 scsi drives.
>
> I'd blow the data away but it has a licensed copy of vmware. Also I'm
> curious what is running on it.
>
> Also does anyone know if windows 2003 or 2008 runs well within linux
> vmware?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
>
> Justin Goldberg
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