Hello,
I'm having a problem with installing CentOS 5 on ESXI 6.5 and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
The CentOS 5 OS actually installed, however after installation the network card was not installed. During the installation it asks me to modify the Network Configuration. Then it asks me to add a device (Devernet Configuration) so I added an eth0 interface with a static IP. However, when i start the vm it has no network interfaces. When I try to bring the interface up I get a "Device eth0 does not exist" error message.
I looks like it's missing the driver for the network card.
So I tried to install VMWare tools to see if I can get the network interface from it
ESXI > CentOS5 VM > Actions > Guest OS > Install VMWare tools
First I got the following error:
The documentation basically said that this was an issue on VMware tools 10.1.0.
I tried making a copy of linux.iso and renamed it to /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linuxPreGlibc25.iso. This allowed me to install VMWare tools, however when I looked at the guest OS the drive was not mounted or even present under /dev/cdrom
I tried mounting the linux.iso file in ESXI straight to the VM under CentOS VM > Hardware Configuration > CD/DVD drive 1
However this did not show up in the guest VM
I read online about OSPs, however how can I get installed if I can't get the package into the VM (mounting does not work and there is no network connectivity)
Any help or suggestions on this issue would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
I tried many things and finally got networking to work on CentOS 5 on ESXI 6.5.
Below is how I did it if anyone else has this problem
- When setting up the install there is an option to configure the virtual hardware
- One of the virtual hardware is call 'Network Adapter 1'
- By default it is set to VMXNET 3 which does not work
- I changed this to E1000 and the network card showed up during the installation
Without this I have no idea how to get VMware tools installed on the CentOS5 VM