What happened? Everything installed fine, but networking didn’t work.įor the second round, I started up a Windows 7 VM and downloaded a copy of ESXi-Customizer as well as a copy of the following files from VMWare’s site: The way I found out that this driver is needed is that I first tried installing the stock ESXi 5.1 install without slipstreaming the driver into the installer ISO. VMware ESXi 5.0 Driver CD for Broadcom NetXtreme I Gigabit Ethernet including support for 5717/5718/5719/5720 Specifically, you will need to add the following ethernet driver to the ESXi install ISO file: It works, but getting it running will take some work. One thing to keep in mind is that ESXi is not officially supported on the Mac Mini. After some work, I now have ESX 5.1 running on my Mini Server. The latest available version as of this date is ESXi 5.1, so I decided to install that. I have a 2011 Mac Mini Server, which is fortunate because setting up ESXi on that Mini model has been well-documented in a number of places. I hadn’t previously set up a dedicated hypervisor, so I wanted to learn how to do that. I’ve been doing a lot of work with VMWare Fusion on my Mac and could have gone that way, but I wanted to do the virtualization with VMWare’s free ESXi software. One thing I’ve wanted to do for a while is virtualizing my home server setup, as well as making it easier to stand up (and take down) test servers as needed.
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