Help on ESXI Customizer !!

[vijayrana968]

Anyone has successfully customize ESXI image from https://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer.html ?

I am trying to add custom NIC driver but ending up with following error.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Hi Vijay
the esxi-customizer.html clearly states that it reaches end of support in 2015. So that suggests that ESXi 6.0 never has been tested.
I build ESXi-LiveCDs manually and noticed that I had to make some small adjustments to my procedure when creaing Isos for 6.0 and later.
Nothing serious - but as I do that manually it was easy to adapt to the new version.
Andreas on the other hand used a fully automated  approach which may not work with the newer versions.
Have you tried to look into the reasons of the error ?
If I remember right there had been some changes in the naming conventions for the boot-files in ESXi #6
By the way - your icon suggests that you are a VMware employee. Please ask for the regular employee icon rather than creating a new one.
That may confuse other visitors.
Regards Ulli

[vijayrana968]

Sorry, I pasted old customizer html above. The one I am using is https://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer-ps.html

I tried it offline also with ESXI 5.5 offline zip bundle as well with offline downloaded VIB for NIC as mentioned in this link. Same issue.

The log isn't much informative. Log file contains exact same text as we have in console snippet which I have attached.

''Error return without exception set"

I am not VMware employee, this is just icon I have uploaded.

[vijayrana968]

Anjani_Kumar​ , alexhunt86​.. Guys any help ! How to customize ESXI ISO ?

[Dave_the_Wave]

Was just thinking the same thing... if a 'Master', vExpert needs to post here for help.... I'm thinking "wut?"

[vijayrana968]

Have you seen this question post/ask date ? Certainly, I wasn’t master and vExpert on that time. Scrolling my old post I just marked it answered yesterday. Moreover, I won’t mind to ask if i am facing issue in something, that's why vCommunity is formed. Technology is challenging everyday, you don’t know where you will stuck even with your master tag.

[Dave_the_Wave]

When you "just marked it answered yesterday", it got top posted, which is how I found it.

That means about a 1000 other people will see it too