Comments on: How To Change Lost Password on Your ESX Server

By: Resetting the Root Password on VMware ESX 4.0 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:38:27 +0000

[...] and away you go. I won't bother to repeat the steps for getting into single user mode; go to this article and it will give you what you need (the article is written for ESX 3.5 but it works fine for ESX [...]

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:56:20 +0000

Thanks, BK!

I haven't played with this, so it's very good that you've spotted the importance of command line wording.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:10:24 +0000

One thing I found to be true when entering "single" mode in reference to this step
… to change ESX kernel boot parameters. Your screen will look like this:

If there is any text after mem-272 make sure you back the cursor to
mem-272M _

It took me a while to figure that out. It doesn't work if you type in 'single' at the end of the line. I had to erase everything up to mem-272M

By: rred

rred — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:29:54 +0000

HI!
THANKS A LOT ! Works like charm!!!!

By: Changing A Mislaid ESX Root Password | VM-Aware

Changing A Mislaid ESX Root Password | VM-Aware — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:59:59 +0000

[...] it out here. [...]