My chicken and egg. I was hoping to 1. create a baseline image that I can clone 2. get a centos image on a VM guest, have my own management servers (including pxe boot) that I own and control. Once I have one or two, I can expand my private cloud as large as I want...and building new guest servers will take minutes. On 10/17/2014 5:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/17/2014 1:55 PM, Dan Hyatt wrote: >> I am still trying to get kick-start centos in my vmware5 because pxe >> cannot find the pxe server. I do not control the dhcp or pxe server. > > this is on ESXI? you /could/ create a virtual network thats not > routed or bridged to your actual networks, then create your own > PXE/DHCP server on this virtual network, and then connect your new VM > to that private virtual net for installation, switching it over to the > regular networks when its done installing.... I've done crazier > things on ESXI :) > > >