Can anybody explain how i create a oem.tgz to use a existing ESXi 5 driver with different PCI IDs?

I get the oem.tgz for nforce network driver and try to change it for the jmicron controller.
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i rename the forcedeth-1.ids -> jmicron-1.ids and change inside:

Quote:

197b JMicron Technologies, Inc.
2361 JMB361 AHCI/IDE

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i rename the forcedeth-1.map -> jmicron-1.map and change inside


but i don´t know the name of the jmicron driver. How i can investigate this?

Hi Wirrkopf,

the easiest way to find this out is to install ESXi 5.0 in a VMware Workstation VM (the free VMware player should also work, but I have never tried that) and then study the files in the installed system.

To answer your question you should do something like

However, you will be disappointed ...
I just did exactly that and no match was found. So there is no built-in support for JMicron adapters in ESXi 5.0.

Do you read?: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3359

A mistake or a lie?

From the linked article:


That shows it using the ahci driver, but as pointed out above, there are no entries for 197b, so I'm not really sure how that works.

Cheers.

I looked at the source code of the Linux ahci driver (available e.g. here), and it looks like it uses generic mappings to the PCI class id PCI_CLASS_STORAGE_SATA_AHCI.

Obviously ESXi does take this into account somehow and tries to load the driver for each device that identifies as a SATA AHCI storage controller.

It should also do this for JMicron adapters ...

Wirrkopf: is your adapter configured for AHCI in the BIOS? If it configured in standard IDE mode this would explain why it is not working.

I need the IDE part of these controller because there are one parallel socket for IDE drives and one external eSATA slot on my motherboard. The contolller has NO internal SATA slots. I don´t want to attach an external Sata drive, i will use the internal IDE slot! It seems so there is no hope to get it run with the esxi generic driver.

But i see in another thread that the driver source code from vmware are now avaliable? Now it should be possible to create real new drivers for esxi5 and integrate them with your Customizer?

Because i´m a linux noob someone else can create a oem.tgz with the jmicron jmb361 IDE controller driver?...

Sorry if this was posted already but:

It looks like the open source code of the ESXi is now available for download!!!

Let the custom drivers flow

Link: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/vsphere_50_oss/dHRAYnRocGRiZHAlJQ==

Where can I view or put a request in for an ESXi 5.0 compatible NIC driver file for the Intel Q67 mini-ITX motherboard?

Intel DQ67EP (B3)

This is a fairly common set of Intel hardware, on a very limited Q67 chipset. Essentially this is the only 1155 mini-ITX board out there that will support ESXi via vDirectPath. That said I'm sure there will be plenty of overlap with Intel drivers if someone could make a driver to support this NIC.

Intel 82579LM - NIC

Thanks!

This post should be about the ESXi-Customizer: A Windows script to customize ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 and nothing ells imo

Sorry, I got here from a Google search. I posted it in other threads and hope when a driver comes out the ESXi-Customizer will make it a simple process.