Comments on: How to create an ESXi v4 Whitebox ISO with Windows Tools

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:18:14 +0000

Hi Dennis the flashed USB drive with the dd worked fine and helped to boot the server detecting the Realtek 8168 however after creating as in your instruction it again fails to detect the Realtek 8168. Can you please explain part
“18. Use Ultraiso to replace image.tgz and add oem.tgz (yes, as of v4 the file isn’t here by default as it was with v3.5)”

Where do I add oem.tgz is it in root of the CD. Is it must as it doesn’t exists by default

Thanks in advance

By: Aubrey Kloppers

Aubrey Kloppers — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:45:34 +0000

Hi CK Lee and Adrian
I also have this card and can’t get it to work in 4.1 (I believe 4.0 uses the same driver structure)

Please could you make the driver available?

Cheers
Aubrey

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:09:08 +0000

Has anyone been successful in creating an iso file that will work with the Realtek NIC? I have tried the steps above, but have been unsuccessful. I guess I don’t know enough about the tools to complete this process. If anyone has an ISO file that I could burn to disc to get my machine working I would really appreciate it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:55:10 +0000

Hi CK Lee can you post the new oem.tgz that you created for DGE-528T, i have the same card and issues?

Thank you

By: CK Lee

CK Lee — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:10:03 +0000

I finally got the DGE-528T to work with ESX3i u4. The card was using a Realtek 8169S but the oem.tgz driver does not have the PCI identifiers for it configured into its pci_tbl list. So I downloaded the open-vdriver project, followed the steps to install a Centos 3.9 environment to compile the r8169 source code and then change the r8169.c code to include the pci id: 1186:4300. Then I changed the oem.tgz file to include my new modified driver and also the simple.map file and now it detects the DGE-528T card.

By: Venkata

Venkata — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:08:21 +0000

Has anybody succeeded in making the ESX4i work using a Realtek 8168 / 8169 / 81111 adapter.
I believe all of these are Giga bit adapters.

I found out that 7Zip can do all that we are trying to accomplish with Ubuntu.

All the other steps described can be followed.
7Zip does not know to store a tgz archive, the tar extension can possibly be replaced for a tgz, when creating the image.tgz file.

Anyways when I created it, I ended up with a PSOD.

The Community Unified oem.tgz is corrupt and wont open.. unless I am doing something wrong..

Just to confirm that it is just the Ethernet card that is stopping me from moving on, I borrowed a Broadcom PCIe card and the install progressed further, to the Installation stage.

Why would ESXi not have a driver for Realtek ?
(My hardware is Gigabyte EP43-UD3L with 4GB 800Mhz, 1TB SATA 3, DualCore E7500, Asus PLCIe Video, Built in Gig ethernet etc.,)

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:49:19 +0000

Joseph, try typing sshd and see what the response is, normally it will give you a sudo apt-get etc…. line that tells you what to type to download and install the ssh daemon. Atleast it does on ubuntu 9.10. But before you can even get to that point you will need to set up your network card and edit the resolve.conf file for the dns. Once you can ping by hostname, then try to get your sshd install going. Upon finishing download, it should start right up and then you can use tunnelier to ssh (port 22) into it. You really dont have to go thru all that tho, you can just use the windows tools listed above in the comments.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:09:42 +0000

How are you able to connect to the Ubuntu server image you linked to with Tunnelier when it has no SSH server/daemon installed? What am I missing here?

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:04:24 +0000

anyone ho has this a working iso for rtl-8168, i have tried this but i don’t work

thank you

By: sleven

sleven — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:45:56 +0000

For download?