Eric (tssgery)'s picture

.. but this is not a debian 6 issue. The vmdk being built by and distributed by TKL is a newer format than ESXi supports. VMware is likely not going to go and backport vmdk v7 support into ESXi 4.1

If you need to stick with ESXi 4.1, your option is to deploy from an ISO (it's very little more work than the vmx/vmdk) or to use something like ovftool to convert the vms/vmdk to an older format that ESXi 4.1 supports.

If you can migrate to ESXi 5.0, it's still free and will support what you're doing.