3

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this, but I'm stuck. I installed VMWare ESXi on a Mac Pro. It's working great! The problem is that you press F12 to eject the disk, and F12 is what you use to shutdown ESX. I can power down, open the case, pull out the CD drive and use a paper clip to force the drawer open, but that's kind of a pain.

Any other way to do this?

EDIT: Setting password was a good idea - no shutdown now :) However, F12 doesn't eject the disk when VMWare is running. Attaching the drive to a VM and ejecting from there ("Eject" in Windows Explorer for example) does work. Kind of a round about way though. But maybe that's the best I can do with this Mac. Wish they had exposed the eject button...

DougN
  • 670
  • 2
  • 7
  • 16

4 Answers4

4

Holding the mouse button down while rebooting the machine will eject the disk.

Zypher
  • 36,995
  • 5
  • 52
  • 95
4

Try issuing the eject command on the ESXi service console via SSH

http://vmwaretips.com/wp/2008/10/20/access-the-esxi-service-console/

Chris Thorpe
  • 9,903
  • 22
  • 32
3

Set a password - that way F12 WON'T shut down you box without you entering it first.

Chopper3
  • 100,240
  • 9
  • 106
  • 238
0

Have you tried binding the physical drive to one of the VMs and then issuing an eject command?

EEAA
  • 108,414
  • 18
  • 172
  • 242
  • This seems to be the only way to get the disk out while the machine is running (ie without a reboot). Not sure why, but F12 wouldn't do it from within VMWare. – DougN Mar 30 '10 at 14:09