Now, burn your newly created ISO image of VMware ESXi 5.5 with your Realtek network adapter drivers injected that was created in the folder you choose to be the working folder for the program. The program will run some commands in the command promt behind it, and that’s it.
#Esxi realtek 8168 iso update#
Tick the auto update check to make sure you always have the latest version of this software. If you are unsure about this, then untick it! If your motherboard support UEFI boot, you can tick the “Create UEFI bootable ISO” if not, then untick this. just create a new folder on your C:\ drive and use it. Third one: Choose what folder to use for working folder. VIB file for you Realtek network adapter that you downloaded earlier. When extracted, run the program so you get the following window:įirst one: Choose the original VMware ESXi 5.5 iso you downloaded from VMware There is not a lot of steps to this, actually just a couple and it will not take long. Injecting the drivers and create a new iso file
The drivers from the old ESXi 5.1 iso (save file and unzip), you only need one of the below depending on what model your network adapter is.The following is what you need to download: Getting the needed softwareįirst you need to get the needed software. You just need a Windows XP or higher computer, and the software below. Putting in a extra network adapter was not an option for me, so I went for option two, and here is how I did it: Creating a custom ESXi 5.5 iso including the Realtek network drivers What you need Creating a custom ESXi 5.5 iso with the drivers from ESXi 5.1.Using a supported network adapter in a PCI-E slot (See above, regarding the Intel Pro 1000 network adapters).There are two ways to make the upgrade work on your motherboard: You can get them here, with free shipping: I highly recommend the Intel pro 1000 series, they are fast, reliable and works on any OS out of the box (including ESXi), but they are a little pricy. If you don’t want to use the method below, you can always buy a Intel Pro 1000 network card and put it in a PCI-e slot. I did not have any problems, and have been running with this solution since I wrote this post (21 days ago now). Some people don’t like to use “not supported” hardware this way, and others had connection problems on the VM’s after doing this.
#Esxi realtek 8168 iso how to#
In this post I will show you how to get ESXi 5.5 working with the Realtek network adapters. The reason for this, is that VMware removed the drivers from the new ESXi 5.5 iso. This problem has been verified to be the same with Realtek 8168 and Realtek 8169. The problem was the motherboard that ships with an onboard Realtek 8111E network adapter. RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz, 8Gb * 2(16GB total) ().My two ESXi servers are white boxes made of the following hardware:
The upgrade from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1 went great, without any problems. Yesterday I decided to upgrade my two ESXi servers from ESXi 5.1 to ESXi 5.5 since the update came out some time ago.
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