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first I would make sure that your host cdrom is connected and working, then if the vm has not got an OS installed on it, it should boot from the cd by default, else there is a key something like F10 or F11 that brings a boot menu up, then select CD-ROM.
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first I would make sure that your host cdrom is connected and working, then if the vm has not got an OS installed on it, it should boot from the cd by default, else there is a key something like F10 or F11 that brings a boot menu up, then select CD-ROM.

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Well i know the CD Rom works because i just loaded ESXi from the CDRom. &nbsp;When it boots up it goes through looking for a PXE Server, then it comes back stating no OS found. &nbsp;Is there an option i need to look at to tell it that the CD-Rom is the first boot object?
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Well i know the CD Rom works because i just loaded ESXi from the CDRom.  When it boots up it goes through looking for a PXE Server, then it comes back stating no OS found.  Is there an option i need to look at to tell it that the CD-Rom is the first boot object?

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Great, that did it. &nbsp;I also found settings under the boot options that will look for this in the future.<br />
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Thanks.
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Great, that did it.  I also found settings under the boot options that will look for this in the future.

Thanks.

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I recently installed VMWare ESXi on a Dell 2950. &nbsp;The installation on VMWare went very smooth but now I am trying to create my first virtual machine and it will not boot from the Host CDRom. &nbsp;How do i enable this?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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smartin0924
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I recently installed VMWare ESXi on a Dell 2950.  The installation on VMWare went very smooth but now I am trying to create my first virtual machine and it will not boot from the Host CDRom.  How do i enable this?

Thanks,

smartin0924

Enable CD Rom to boot OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.