Physical NIC -- USB Network adapter RTL8153 -- ESXi on Arm Fling (Build 18427252)

[vitorinux1]

Hi all,

Somebody with problems when adding aditional Physical NIC?

This is my workbench:

ESXi on Arm Fling (Build 18427252) in a RPi4 8GB (Installed last version VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-18427252.aarch64.iso)

Reading documentation I've seen the "ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-39035884-component-16770668" as a VMKUSB driver to use for RTL8153  network adapters.

In my case: tp-link UE300 V3

After completing the following steps, Nothing happens, the component was installed successfully and lsusb command (via CLI) shows physical adapter.

https://flings.vmware.com/usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi#summary

All help is welcome

[cyprienlaplace · Accepted solution]

Hi, this VMKUSB fling drivers are for ESXi x86 only.

[vitorinux1]

Thanks for the clarify

I've seen (deep google search) one post talking about in v7.0.1 was solved/added but I wonder whether was on other architecture, you are right

Do you know if VMWARE are thinking about add support to this driver/component?

Many thanks

[cyprienlaplace]

Hi, do you mean the driver has been added to ESXi 7.0.1 for x86?

As for ESXi Arm Fling, there's no public roadmap.

Cyprien