I’m starting to get a lot of demand for server virtualization and am using VMWare
to do it.
One snag that took a bit to overcome was trying to copy a file from a USB stick to the VMWare ESX 3.5 server via the console.
When I plugged in the USB stick, the server recognized it and displayed a bunch of verbiage on the screen. Unfortunately, it doesn’t return to the command prompt when finished, you have to press [Enter]. Wasted a few minutes waiting before I figured that out.
One of the things it will tell you is what device name it has given the USB drive. In this case it was “/dev/sdd” (no quotes).
So in order to mount the drive I had to create a mount point
mkdir /mnt/usbkey
“usbkey” was arbitrary on my part.
Then, I had to figure out that I needed to append a “1″ to the device name to actually mount it:
mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usbkey -t vfat
the “-t vfat” I found via a google search. I was then able to copy the file with the cp command.
Linux is pretty intuitive, eh?
