How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host?

Question

How can I disable PXE network booting through vSphere on a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0 as host?

Answer 1

boot from a cd drive... be sure to "power on startup" the drive on your VM

Answer 2

add a cd drive to the VM........... and change the boot order in the bios!

Answer 3

You need to change only the boot order in the bios of the VM, the cd drives of the previous answers have with this nothing to do.

Answer 4

Go into the BIOS and disable PXE boot.

Answer 5

Edit the .vmx file (located in your virtual machine folder) and add the following line to the bottom of it:

ethernet0.opromsize="0"

OR

ethernet0.opromsize="TRUE"