Hello all,
This weekend I started setting up my first ESXi server. My hardware is
CPU: 1920x AMD Threadripper 12 core processor
MOBO: ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6
RAM: 4x16GB 2400 UDIMMs non-ECC Crucial/ Micron
GPU0: Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX550 (for server monitor)
GPU1: AMD Radeon Pro Duo (for virtualization)
HBA card: LSI 9210-8i
I'm running the latest update to ESXi 6.7
I'm trying to set it up so that there's the Hypervisor with 2 cores, 8GB RAM and the RX550; a FreeNAS VM with 4 cores, 32GB RAM, the HBA card; and a Windows 10 VM with 6 cores, 24GB RAM, and the Radeon Pro Duo. For the most part this has been going smoothly compared to HyperV! The GPU passthrough was easy enough and FreeNAS is having no issues after I figured out how to pass drives directly to it. My problem now is that only one of my onboard NICs is detected. I found out that ESXi does not natively support RealTek NICs, so I started by following this guide: ESXi 6.5 enable Realtek NICs • Nolabnoparty . Basically I was hoping that even though this guide is for a different set of NIC chipsets it would just work. That's unfortunately not how it worked out.
Next I attempted to download the drivers I did need using curl, which wasn't working so I used wget. This was also unsuccessful so I just downloaded the drivers to a flash drive formatted to FAT32 and copied the files using this guide: . After doing so I made the files executable via the same process as this StackOverflow post: . Unfortunately the script returns the error:
`find: /lib/modules/6.7.0/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet: No such file or directory
find: /lib/modules/6.7.0/kernel/drivers/net: No such file or directory
Check old driver and unload it.
./autorun.sh: line 1: lsmod: not found
Build the module and install
./autorun.sh: line 30: make: not found`
I checked this file location and unfortunately `/lib/modules/` does not exist. So I guess these drivers are for desktop only? Anyway. What else can I try before I just buy a different 2.5Gbps NIC?
Thanks!
RdGameboy