Thursday, January 2, 2014

Windows 8 / 2012 on ESXi 4.0 / 4.1 hosts

OK, so others have documented on how to enable using Windows 8 and Server 2012 with an ESXi 4.0 / 4.1 host.  I am not going to recreate the procedure, but here are links to some:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/394669
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/312358-how-to-install-windows-2012-server-on-esxi-4-1
http://en.blog.skydriver.org/2013/02/03/windows-server-2012-and-windows-8-on-vmware-esxi-4-1/

What I was curious about was where this bios.440.rom file came from and is it safe.  From the first reference from the VMware communities it came from a vmware employee.  Did some more searching and found these two sites that detailed building / modifying BIOS-es

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/19329-HOWTO-Modify-VMWare-BIOS-with-SLIC-2-1

While it was detailed, and looked like it used some files that were coming from questionable sources, the original toolkit was sound

http://www.bios.net.cn/Files/soft/biosfile/qt/SLIC_ToolKit_V3.2.rar

So I concluded to accept the file and not research further.

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