Re: vmware ESXi in KVM

[Konstantin Shelekhin]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:39:35AM +0300, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:47:03AM +0200, Gunnar wrote:
> > I am trying to install esxi7 inside a KVM machine
> > 
> >     virt-install --name=esxi7 \
> >     --vcpus=2 \
> >     --memory=4096 \
> >     
> > --cdrom=/home/username/isos/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2a-17867351.x86_64.iso
> >     \
> >     --disk size=33 \
> >     --os-variant=unknown
> > 
> > the installation process starts but does not get fails with a "No
> > network adapters" error. This does not happen with other VM's.
> > What do I have to add to above command in order to attach the default
> > network adapter to the machine?
> > 
> > or is there any other trick I have to be aware of when it comes to
> > installing ESXi
> > 
> 
> Hi Gunnar,
> 
> A lot of legacy drivers have been removed from ESXi 7.
> 
> Consider to install e1000 community edition network driver.
> You may also want to try vmxnet3 device, although it has some packet
> delivery issues with hostfwd.

Yeah, we discovered that the following thing is needed in %firstboot
section to make vmxnet3 work:

  esxcli network nic cso set -e 0 -n vmnic0

Checksum offloading breaks (at least) port forwarding via hostfwd. I'll
write the detailed report to the list by the end of the week.