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My easiest way (gnoboot) is: - Use StarWind V2V converter. - Convert *vfat.img to "VMware ESX server image". You get two *.vmdk files. - In vSphere client create new custom VM. - Guest operating system Linux CentOS 64-bit works for me. - NIC e1000. - Default SCSI controller LSI logic parallel. VMware Paravirtual works too. - Create new disk (8 GB is sufficient for testing). - Select SCSI (0:1) because this is not the boot disk. - Finish, Edit settings, remove CD/Floppy (probably not necessary but I like to have things simple). - Open datastore / location of you VM. - Upload the two vmdk files created by V2V. - Edit VM settings, add hard disk, existing, browse to datastore / location of your VM, select 32 MB gnoboot vmdk. - Select SCSI (0:0) because this is the boot disk. - Edit VM settings, options, set Power On Boot Delay to e.g. 9000. - Power on VM, open console. - In grub select gnoboot.me then 4458. - VM console tells you the IP, point browser to that IP, install DSM_DS3612xs_4458.pat from computer. - Let VM reboot with gnoboot/grub defaults. Done. Enjoy.

Woohoo, this forum rocks.I didn't find this start-stop-status file but I uninstalled vmtools, created a volume1 and reinstalled there. Now it's working, thx.

2014/03/08 09:29:15 Install open-vm-tools 9.4.0-1280544-50 successfully 2014/03/08 09:29:15 Start open-vm-tools: start 9.4.0-1280544-50 successfully Can't get it to work - "Failed to run the package service." Log says: "NAS is not a virtual machine..." "vmtoolsd is not running..." It's running on ESXi 5.5 vmx-9. Do I miss something?