Monday, June 27, 2016

Sending an F11 to ESXi from a Macbook Pro when using RDP to a Windows system for installation

Many more irritating moments spent wishing I had written this down somewhere.

I work remotely much of the time.  I'm currently reinstalling ESXi on a number of hosts and using a workstation located on the LAN of my office to hold the install ISO.  I'm accessing it via RDP from a Mac connected by VPN.  I have configured my Mac to use F-keys in a more traditional manner like I recorded in this post, but for some reason the F11 would show the desktop instead of actually instructing the ESXi installation to continue.

The secret key sequence is:

Command+F11

I don't know what it is about the Mac that makes it behave like this, but I'm tired of wasting time searching for this answer.  I hope I remember it now...

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