ESXi 5.5 rtl9168e NIC driver find NIC

If you're deterred by the price of a professional server, and you happen to want to install ESXi on a regular PC, which happens to be ESXi version 5.5, then you may encounter the issues mentioned in this article and can help you.

1, after the successful installation reboot prompt "No boot disk" or "No bootable device" and so on.

The general meaning is that the boot disk or device cannot be found and will not boot into the system.

(1) is said to be related to the default UEFI boot, the BIOS set under the various parameters of UEFI try;

(2) If the problem cannot be resolved through UEFI settings, then you can try the MBR boot mode: In the system initialization installation interface, while pressing "Shift + O", at the bottom of the command line appears ">runweasel" followed by the Space + "FORMATWITHMBR" , so it will be okay to start after installation.

(3) Do not want to reinstall there are ways: each time you start the installation CD or USB flash drive first access to the host, startup is no problem.

The question of not finding a boot device can be seen in this discussion: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/328968

2, the installation process prompted "No compatible network adapter found", can not continue to install.

The NIC driver could not be found. This is because 5.5 of the removal of a lot of drivers, these drivers corresponding to the hardware is generally not used for professional servers, so the driver added to the good.

Take the common lack of Realtek 8118/8168 NIC driver as an example, the steps are as follows:

(1) Download the driver of the network card, you can download the following link:

vmware_bootbank_net-r8168_8.013.00-3vmw.510.0.0.799733

After downloading, you will need to unzip and use the Vib file.

(2) Download Drive Pack tool: Esxi-customizer

Http://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer.html

(3) Run the Esxi-customizer and package the drive files in the image file of ESXi 5.5.

Installing with this new file will not be a problem.

Questions about drivers If you want to know more, you can view this article: http://www.tinkertry.com/install-esxi-5-5-with-realtek-8111-or-8168-nic/

ESXi 5.5 rtl9168e NIC driver find NIC