I have been installing OpenBSD 4.6 inside a VMWare ESXi 4.0 virtual machine and ran into a strange behavior I can't explain... it seems to cache my installation options between totally unrelated virtual machines. The process goes like this:
I create a new 'Typical' virtual machine, select 'Other' as the guest OS and choose 'Other (32-bit)' in the Version pulldown menu. I accept all default settings (256MB ram, 1 vCPU, 8GB disk, etc) and check the Thin Provisioning disk allocation checkbox. I then associate the cd46.iso file (stored on a datastore) with the virtual cdrom drive and boot off of it to begin the installation process, where I specify a local LAN ftp server to fetch the install media from. The install process goes as expected and the virtual machine is running happily along... The thing is, when I create a second brand new virtual machine using the process described above and get to the 'select install media' step, it already has my local ftp server's name populated! As far as I can tell, the only thing in common between the two installation processes is the cd46.iso file. This isn't necessarily bad, I just can't explain why its happening. Two questions: 1) Is anyone else observing this behavior? 2) Can anyone explain why it is occurring?
