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Quick and Dirty VMware ESX Patching

31-Jul-08

On the ESX console, do the following:

Read the documentation for each patch.
Group patches that can be installed together into a directory, possibly an NFS mount available on all your ESX hosts.
Cd into the patch directory and untar the patches:
for i in `ls *.tgz`; do
tar -xvzf $i
done
Install the patches:
for i in `ls`; do
if [ -d [...]

What is up with VMware’s patch download applet?

27-Jun-08

Am I the only one that hates VMware’s patch download site and its corresponding applet? (Maybe - I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it looking quickly on VMware’s message boards, which I found most odd.) I’ve never been able to get it to launch under Firefox, only under IE (even on the same [...]