Good day,
I am an absolute novice with VMWare and want to build a test bench environment.
I have tried to do an install of VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 but that failed due to the network card not being found/compatible.
After some research I found the ESXi Customizer PS and have been trying to create an ISO with my network card driver included,,,, but the script times out.
Script commands I have tried are:
.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -outDir G:\ -log G:\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc
.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -outDir C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI -log C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc
.\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.6.0 -v67 -load net-r8168 -pkgDir C:\Users\james\Desktop\ESXI\Driver -outDir G:\ -log G:\ESXi-Customizer-PS.log -nsc
The script proceeds well and then always seems to fail at the same point...
An unexpected error occured:
[WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
I have attached a copy of the log file for your info.
Thanks in advance for the assistance.
Regards James
See this thread: Problem including driver net-r8168 in ESXi 7.0 Iso using ESXi-Customizer-PS-2.7.0
That type of driver is not supported with 7.0.
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See this thread: Problem including driver net-r8168 in ESXi 7.0 Iso using ESXi-Customizer-PS-2.7.0
That type of driver is not supported with 7.0.
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Hi JamesTav,
Thank you for choosing VMware Communities.
Please provide me the Hardware Model details of the ESXi Server.
Regards,
Hemanth
Hello James and welcome to the forums!
First of all, Scott's answer is correct: As of today there is no Realtek NIC driver that works with ESXi 7.0.
The latest version of ESXi that works with a Realtek NIC is 6.7, and even with that you need to use the community supported net55-r8168 driver (see https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/Net55-r8168 ). So you should be able to build a working ESXi 6.7 image with the switches -v67 -vft -load net55-r8168.
However, the error that you are seeing with the script is caused by incompatible SSL encryption settings on your system. There is a suggested fix in this Github issue, but it doesn't seem to work for everyone:
Andreas