tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post7295245410201689974..comments2023-11-01T18:25:49.063+01:00Comments on VMware Front Experience: The anatomy of the ESXi 5.0 installation CD - and how to customize itAndreas Peetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-6206161278885286792012-03-14T22:50:38.280+01:002012-03-14T22:50:38.280+01:00Please stop asking support questions in the commen...Please stop asking support questions in the comments of this or any other post, but use e-mail instead!<br /><br />Jota, I will come back to you by e-mail.<br /><br />For this post I will now disable comments.<br /><br />Thanks<br />AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-66350984989971950602012-03-14T17:05:00.493+01:002012-03-14T17:05:00.493+01:00Hello.
Thank you for your support, tools and help....Hello.<br />Thank you for your support, tools and help.<br />I am a newbie :-)<br /><br /><br />I have a problem I can't understand and perhaps you can help me.<br /><br />I have created a new image for the installation with a network card driver (vib file)<br />I try to install it and when the installation loads all the drivers, it fails and say "no network adapters were detected"...<br /><br />lspci:<br />000:002:00.0 Network controller: Marvell Technologies, Inc. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller<br /><br />lspci -v:<br />000:002:00.0 Network controller: Marvell Technologies, Inc. 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller<br />class: 0200: 11ab:4363<br /><br />that it is correct, due is the same information in Fedora 16 and windows 7 for this device.<br /><br />I can load the driver with vmkload_mod and I have network link, but I don't know how to launch the installation again or how can I do to autoload this driver.<br /><br />So I am unable (and frustrated) to continue installing.<br />Do you have suggestions?<br />Thanks a lot.<br /><br />(sorry for my english)juanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14716991627462228561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-44145390773575019602011-11-30T00:44:21.204+01:002011-11-30T00:44:21.204+01:00Andreas, thank for all the information!
Is it pos...Andreas, thank for all the information!<br /><br />Is it possible, after installation, to replace the e1000 and e1000e drivers of ESXi 5.0 with the ones that came with the 4.0 version?<br /><br />Im dealing with a Wake-on-lan issue...<br />The hardware used to work OK in the 4.0 version, but after upgrading to ESXi 5.0 the WOL function gives no response..<br /><br />Any idea?<br /><br />Thanks in advance.Pepe Céspedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09855672093789400326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-27210916346037004772011-11-12T22:26:28.057+01:002011-11-12T22:26:28.057+01:00DirtyWilly,
you can extract these files from any c...DirtyWilly,<br />you can extract these files from any computer that has been installed with ESXi 5.0.<br />But what do you want to achieve with these files?<br />- AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-40845178099362245882011-11-12T20:51:35.964+01:002011-11-12T20:51:35.964+01:00Where can we obtain the e1000, e1000.map and e1000...Where can we obtain the e1000, e1000.map and e1000.ids files?<br /><br />Is it OK to include these in your ESXi-Customizer extraction?WillyDruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592272516228779402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-80236102556755799632011-11-12T11:46:19.159+01:002011-11-12T11:46:19.159+01:00bsa,
the latest version of my ESXi-Customizer scri...bsa,<br />the latest version of my ESXi-Customizer script is able to apply a vib-file to the ESXi 5.0 install ISO. If an older version of the driver already exists in the install ISO it will be updated/replaced.<br />- AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-72578226158339447172011-11-12T10:04:17.456+01:002011-11-12T10:04:17.456+01:00Andreas,
thanks for your note.
As far as you know ...Andreas,<br />thanks for your note.<br />As far as you know is there a method to replace a driver on ISO ?<br />I have a LSI megasas 9240. ESXi 5 installation CD stop during scan and I have to:<br />1)remove card<br />2)install ESXi on USB stick<br />3)upgrade driver using esxcli software vib install<br />4)instal card<br />5) ok now it recognize CARD<br />As I would like to install sys & data on RAID,<br />what is the best way?<br /><br />Thanks in advancebsanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-18834123684767583552011-11-03T20:19:07.713+01:002011-11-03T20:19:07.713+01:00ben,
I do not fully understand your issue ... Plea...ben,<br />I do not fully understand your issue ... Please send me (mail to esxi-customizer@v-front.de)<br />a) the oem.tgz that you are trying to apply (or a download link to it)<br />b) The log-file of ESXi-Customizer<br />c) A description of what is going wrong when installing and/or booting the server for the first time.<br />Thanks - AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-64005216022626869392011-11-03T14:13:43.354+01:002011-11-03T14:13:43.354+01:00Wouahaou !! Great reverse of the structure... THAN...Wouahaou !! Great reverse of the structure... THANKS !!<br /><br />Anyway I've just tried your script and a little thing is going wrong somewhere... ;) Cause I success loading my brand new drivers using the ones from :http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3489<br /><br />But if they are cleanly pushed during the setup (I can "ls" them in the directories) they are not loaded. When I run<br /># esxcfg-module -e 8139T00<br /><br />It doesn't complain, so it seems to be the first time it's called ?!<br /><br />Anyway my network card is still unrecognized and the install sequence abort... this led to my second question: How could I relaunch the setup process without rebooting my server ??<br /><br />Thanks a lot for your answers !!!!<br /><br />Benbenhttp://alps.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-33902387686576061792011-10-13T10:50:24.074+02:002011-10-13T10:50:24.074+02:00Hi Aaron,
you can merge ESXi 4.1 drivers into the ...Hi Aaron,<br />you can merge ESXi 4.1 drivers into the ESXi 5.0 install ISO this way (the easiest way to do this would be using my ESXi-Customizer script), but it just makes no sense, because ESXi 5.0 is not able to use drivers made for ESXi 4.1. See my note at the end of the above post.<br />- AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-17305710881016832372011-10-13T04:31:05.920+02:002011-10-13T04:31:05.920+02:00Great write-up!
If I understand what you are sayi...Great write-up!<br /><br />If I understand what you are saying, I should be able to repackage a working oem.tgz from ESXi 4.1 with the directory structure shown in step 3 to use on my ESXi5.0 install but after install, when I boot the machine my custom drivers will not be there?Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11895397985004223948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-30015743356091708922011-09-11T15:27:07.469+02:002011-09-11T15:27:07.469+02:00Are there a list of included drivers in ESXi5 and ...Are there a list of included drivers in ESXi5 and the exactly name of the binary module?<br /><br />And if not, how can i investigate the correct name of a driver if i know the driver is included in esxi5?<br /><br />For example i know there is a jmicron jmb362/368 driver and i guess that these driver work also with jmicron 361/363 Controller.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com