On 04/24/2018 01:26 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ? > ... > > I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my > other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any > VMware platform - Workstation, ESX or other. > > How is that accomplished ? > Thanks for your thoughts and experience. While my experience with ESX is rather old at this point, as is my experience with Workstation, since I have converted to KVM for my virtualization here, I will just point out that the virtual hardware supported by ESX(i) and Workstation are not the same. I don't know if current vSphere/ESXi is different, but it's easy enough to check, but older ESX only supported SCSI for the virtual hard disks; no IDE hard disk support in ESX, and Workstation defaults to IDE hard disks. VMware Workstation and ESXi are very different products, or at least the last versions of each that I actively used were. So check which ESXi version you're targeting, and make sure you install the guest in Workstation with that hardware version and with ESXi-compatible devices. And then there is VMware Fusion for macOS....