Comments on: Create an ESXi Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools

By: mehdi

mehdi — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:44:16 +0000

hello anyone
what is mymods-0.1.tar?
where is it? i can’t find it
i have a vostro 1500 laptop and try to install esxi 3.5u5 on it. but the esxi can’t detect my NIC ‘Broadcom 440x with pci/id 14e4/170c’
can anyone help me?
i have linux and windows drivers of my nic!
thanks

By: Misc

Misc — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:11:54 +0000

@Brat
Hi, did you managed to get past step 2? I’m struggling with same problems.

Maybe someone else can shed some light on the subject and give us newbies more details for step 2? Or give us some educational links .
I tried searching for tutorials on Tunnelier but didn’t find any that would help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: Bernd

Bernd — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:49:53 +0000

i’m experiencing the same trouble santos does. running esxi 3.5u5 on servere with realtek nic. everything works fine and linux distributions even perfectly. only on windowsVMs (win 7, xp) I cannot connect to the internet with any browser, although – ping, nlslookup and tracert all work fine. strange behaviour… error: http 400. if i remove vmware tools the error is gone but performance slows down. any clues?

By: jon

jon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:06:09 +0000

if you dont have the time to wait for an intel pro 1000 card trendnet gig card pci TEG-PCITXR will work and its based on the 8169 realtek

By: Dennis Spreen

Dennis Spreen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:32:22 +0000

thanks for yor hint!

By: Srinivas Kagitapu

Srinivas Kagitapu — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:24:47 +0000

Even after injecing the OEM.TZ for 8168, it was throwing the same LVM driver failed. After inspecting a little bit I found some of the lines were mis-aligned in the Simple.map and pci.ids files. The mis-alignement was found exactly where the 8168 reference was provided. When aligned the lines and used the iso again, it worked as it should be.

Thanks
Srinivas Kagitapu

By: Dennis Spreen

Dennis Spreen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:01:24 +0000

Due to copyright restrictions please do not post a “realtek esxi ISO” link here, thanks (and sorry).

By: Luis Guerrero

Luis Guerrero — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:50:08 +0000

Hi, same comment as Shadrach did.
Im newbie at Linux and at this job i cant spare 1 or 2 hours trying to set it up; jst cant!! there´s to much work to do.
It could save us a lot of time if somebody could help us uploading fixed ISO ESX installer for Realtek.

Thanks a lot for all the job, the step by step guide and efforts to share it with us. Maybe ill spend a couple of overtime hours this weekend.

By: Shadrach

Shadrach — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:03:15 +0000

i followed your steps but it is not working for me not only me most of the friends are facing some problem so could you please upload edited version iso file (realtek nic suppost iso) on rapidshare or megaupload site and give us the link

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:09:06 +0000

Hello,
Trying to use the R8168 driver from oem.tgz by Jen and having the issues described with it. Are there any updated drivers that DON’T have this issue?
Thanks