NancyChiang Tracker

Sign Vib to VMwareAccepted

NancyChiang — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:42:19 GMT

Hi Sir,

I want to sign my VIB to VMwareAccepted level, is there any information or contact windows?

I want to get the qualifications become vmware partner.

amldump for UEFI table

NancyChiang — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:19:15 GMT

Hi Sir,

I found ESXi system has amldump can get acpi table but lost the UEFI table.

The support table only:

DMAR DSDT ECDT FACS FADT HPET LPIT MADT MCFG NFIT RSD PTR RSDT WDDT

Could you kindly guide me how to get UEFI table?

Thanks.

How to convert virtual addr to physical addr in esxi

NancyChiang — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:39:47 GMT

Hi Sir,

How can I convert virtual addr to physical addr?

I use vmk_HeapAlloc api and get virtual addr, is there any api to let me translate to physical addr in vmkernel?

Thanks.

load sample code kernel module failed

NancyChiang — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 08:03:19 GMT

Hi Sir,

I am a newer for ESXi driver, I just get NDDK and want to run sample code.

When I build sample kernel module successfully and want to install it.

I get below error.

My NDDK version is 7.0u3 and my test machine is ESXi7.0.

could you kindly check this problem?

Thanks.

BR,

Nancy

Access physical memory in ESXi7.0

NancyChiang — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:26:27 GMT

Hi Sir,

I want to write a driver to access physical memory.

I have two method can work on LINUX system, 1. create driver to access, 2. use LINUX mmap function

I saw this blog has open source code in ESXi 5.x, this can make me porting my driver inside and build the driver.

https://www.v-front.de/2013/03/how-to-build-device-drivers-for-esxi-5x.html

But our system is ESXi 7.0, is there any open source code let me build my driver.

If this way is no longer support on ESXi7.0, could you guide me another method to do this?

Thanks.

Re: custom firewall setting in ESXI7.0 operation not permitted

NancyChiang — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:01:00 GMT

Many thanks, it's work now!!!

custom firewall setting in ESXI7.0 operation not permitted

NancyChiang — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:39:50 GMT

Hi Sir,
I follow below rule want to change /etc/vmware/firewall/service.xml, but this still not working.
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2008226
Could you kindly help, we want to custom firewall setting in ESXI7.0.

In ESXi 7.0+ access to the above files is restricted.

To work around this you can do the following
Copy the file to a datastore on the host.
Make the required changes to the file
In the /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh file add the command to copy and replace the file needed.
In order to force this command to persist across reboots of the ESXi server host, the command has to be added manually to the /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh file on the ESXi server.
Note: The correct way to open up ports is through a partner-created VIB to open the ports or change the files needed.