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Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by Dave Rose

Dave Rose — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:28:41 +0000

Unfortunately I am still only using 5.5, I haven’t had any time to upgrade, if I do, I’ll have a look and see if I can help.

Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by cpdohert

cpdohert — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:49:55 +0000

Excellent, guide. Dave. The three articles in this series probably saved me a week’s worth of work. Unfortunately, I’m jammed on this one. I’m using CentOS 5.6 on ESX/vSphere 4.0u1. vmlinuz and the initrd load and run fine, but the networking fails and can’t see the URL for the kickstart file. I’ve duplicated your steps here (using the 5.6 kernel and kernel modules) using the files from VMware’s OSP packages. The only thing missing is the modules.alias step; on my reference system, there are no vmxnet entries in that file (adding them in manually means the installer does not load any ethernet modules and squawks for a driver disk).

If I have to, I’ll roll back to 5.5 and just handle 5.6 as a post-install upgrade, but I’d rather not have to. Have you had any luck getting this method to work with 5.6 or are you still version locked to 5.5?

Comment on How to mirror CentOS 5 and use it as a local YUM repository by How to create a CentOS 5 VMware virtual machine using PXEBOOT and Kickstart | Blog by Dave Rose

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:44:50 +0000

[...] and I suggest having it local although you don’t have to. I wrote a previous article about How to mirror CentOS 5 and use it as a local YUM repository which should show you how to set things [...]

Comment on How to create a CentOS 5 VMware virtual machine using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by How to mirror CentOS 5 and use it as a local YUM repository. | Blog by Dave Rose

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:51:35 +0000

[...] to set up your own PXEBOOT and Kickstart setup, you may find this other article I wrote called How to create a CentOS 5 VMware virtual machine using PXEBOOT and Kickstart helpful. Categories: Linux Tags: CentOS, CentOS mirror, linux, yum repository Comments [...]

Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by Virtualization Short Take #39 « #EMCworld 2010

Virtualization Short Take #39 « #EMCworld 2010 — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:06:31 +0000

[...] Rose posted a guide on how to incorporate support for the VMXNET2 and VMXNET3 NICs into a PXEBOOT/Kickstart environment. It goes a bit deep for me [...]

Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by #EMCworld 2010 » Virtualization Short Take #39

#EMCworld 2010 » Virtualization Short Take #39 — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:31:35 +0000

[...] Rose posted a guide on how to incorporate support for the VMXNET2 and VMXNET3 NICs into a PXEBOOT/Kickstart environment. It goes a bit deep for me [...]

Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by Virtualization Short Take #39 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Mon, 03 May 2010 21:01:24 +0000

[...] Rose posted a guide on how to incorporate support for the VMXNET2 and VMXNET3 NICs into a PXEBOOT/Kickstart environment. It goes a bit deep for me [...]

Comment on VMware VMXNET driver support when using PXEBOOT and Kickstart by dfwarden

dfwarden — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:15:22 +0000

Thank you for this simple, well-documented guide to enabling netboot on vmxnet3 devices. We also were netbooting with e1000 NICs and having to switch back. What a pain.

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