1. Install Esxi 6.5 On Usb

Installing ESXi (or any os for that matter) off of a CD/DVD is becoming harder and harder yet they still insist on distributing ISO files. Once upon a time we had these drives internally but these days chances are neither your workstation or server are going to have an optical drive meaning you’ll have to dig up a USB optical drive from the bottom of a box buried under multiple other boxes Or something like that.USB sticks have replaced optical media for installing operating systems so here I’ll show you how to create an install USB for VMware ESXi.

Install ESXi on a server/laptop with only USB Ethernet3 minute readIt has been more than a year since I wrote about the ASIX and Realtek USB Ethernet drivers ( and ), and I am still getting quite a lot of interest, success reports, bug reports and requests for help. One of the commonest requests has been a way to install ESXi when the target machine doesn’t have a built-in Ethernet adapter.Now, one would expect to be able to whip a customised ISO installer with the USB Ethernet drivers, boot from it and be able to install ESXi. Sadly, that is not the case.I tried to come up with various “solutions”, including a custom kickstart file to either set the network or the netdevice, but nothing worked. That was a few months ago, but I have recently managed to find some time to dedicate to the issue Guess what? Network configuration is hard-coded to use vmnic0. Update I have changed the solution to use the first physical NIC device which is reporting link up state.

No hardcoding – yeah!Update (3/06/2018)New VIBs for ESXi 6.5 and ESXi 6.7 available for download.WeaselWeasel is VMware’s operating system installer, which is very similar to RedHat’s Anaconda. Weasel was originally a “Fling” that was released in 2010 as an Open Source.So, I started by perusing the GitHub repository (mainly Python scripts), but I couldn’t identify anything odd.

So, I jumped on one of my existing ESXi servers and started the search again. Lo and behold, the actual packages in the server have almost no resemblance to the GitHub source code Weaselly indeed!

Install Esxi 6.5 On Usb

The hackOnce I identified the script that had the adapter hardcoded (applychoices.py) it didn’t take very long to work out a hack to overcome that. It is not pretty, and involves more hard-coding, but it works.Here is the how to: Editing and repackaging the VIBCopy the VIB (weaselin.t00), say, to /tmp and extract the contents to a suitable sub-directory:cp /bootbank/weaselin.t00 /tmp/cd /tmpvmtar -x weaselin.t00 -o weaselin.tarmkdir weaselinmodcd weaselinmodtar -xf./weaselin.tarEdit networkingbase.py:vi -c 70 usr/lib/vmware/weasel/networking/networkingbase.pyAdd the following functions. Update 3/06/2018:Trying to troubleshoot an issue for a reader I realised that the custom VIB I made available for download would only work with the ESXi 6.7 installer image.Please see below for the relevant VIBs for 6.5 and 6.7 installations.You can also download the customised Weasel VIBs using the following links:### ASIX### RealtekDownload the VIB for the relevant ESXi version, then copy the weasilin.t00 VIB to your bootable USB stick. ESXi 6.5 VIBESXi 6.7 VIBHey, VMware!Hardcoded values are not cool.

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