Let’s face it: installing VMware ESXi from a CD-ROM or from a USB key is painfully slow. Installing from the network is faster and more flexible. And preparing VMware to be installed from PXE turned out to be very easy.
The ISC DHCP configuration file could look like this:

# cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 604800;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address [...]

When it is not possible to install VMware ESXi 4.0 from a CD/DVD drive, and if the machine supports booting from USB, one can easily install from a USB drive. Preparing the USB drive to install ESXi 4.0 from it is very easy:
Create a FAT32 partition on the USB drive:

# install-mbr /dev/sdX
# fdisk /dev/sdX
…
# mkfs.vfat [...]

On this second post I want to talk about the interaction problems I experienced with the HP SmartArray P212 controller in this computer. The HP SmartArray P212 controller is certified for VMware ESXi 4.0 and Solaris 10. Initially I thought that using VMware would be useful to me in order to play with Solaris and [...]

It seems that the oust of Diane Greene is having big consequences. One of them is that VMware ESXi is now a free product. I see this like a direct attack to Microsoft’s attempt to get into the virtualization market. What does this mean? That there is little reason to choose Microsoft’s hypervisor when you [...]

I have been fighting for quite some time to get Solaris 10 installed and working properly under VMwae Fusion 1.1 on an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. I think this is an interaction problem between VMware Fusion and Solaris 10. Even if you tell VMware Fusion that you want to install Solaris in 32-bit mode, [...]

From How to improve disk I/O performances with VMware Workstation 5:

Memory trimming
Workstation checks which part of the guest OS virtual memory is not used and allocates it back to the host OS. This permits to have more concurrent virtual machines running but everytime the guest OS asks back for its memory it suffers a performance [...]