Hello,

I really need help figuring this thing out.

I am running Realtek 2.5 Gb Ethernet 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 that I just bought, and wanted to run vmware EsXi 8.0 standard in it, and I am getting no network adapter detected. I have looked everywhere for an answer, and no luck so far. Any guidance will be helpful knowing that this is new to me as well.

Thanks In advance.

Is your NIC on the supported list under Requirements? Did you build a new ESXi image that contains the required driver?

Hello Everybody,

I have given really big efort and created my custom image
I bought ASIX AX88179 usb adapter too.

But again I had an error as below, Please help me.

The boot is almost completed and at the last second I had this,

cpu0:131309) 1292: Unable to obtain a NIC Mac address for UUID generation. Will use a face MAC.
Please add/configure a supported NIC.
cpu1:131309)UHVMKSyscall: 1924: There are no supported network interfaces on th,s host
Jumpstart plugin late-filesystem activation failed.
Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Consult product documentation to configure a syslog server or scratch partition.

Hello Everybody,

I have given really big efort and created my custom image
I bought ASIX AX88179 usb adapter too.

But again I had an error as below, Please help me.

The boot is almost completed and at the last second I had this,

cpu0:131309) 1292: Unable to obtain a NIC Mac address for UUID generation. Will use a face MAC.
Please add/configure a supported NIC.
cpu1:131309)UHVMKSyscall: 1924: There are no supported network interfaces on th,s host
Jumpstart plugin late-filesystem activation failed.
Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Consult product documentation to configure a syslog server or scratch partition.

Is there a way to install vspehre from scratch with these driver? I mean, there's no vsphere installed because there's no network card detected so I want to add an USB network card to install it....

Yes, this is a common process that if you need additional drivers, you'll create a new ESXi image w/required drivers. You can do so using https://williamlam.com/2021/03/easily-create-custom-esxi-images-from-patch-releases-using-vsphere-image-builder-ui.html or https://williamlam.com/2022/11/creating-custom-esxi-images-using-vsphere-lifecycle-manager-vlcm-ui-and-powercli-cmdlets-for-vsphere-8.html or https://williamlam.com/2022/02/how-to-create-a-customized-esxi-iso-without-vcenter-server.html

If you've got CDC-enabled USB devices, then it'll just work OOTB https://williamlam.com/2022/02/usb-network-adapters-without-using-the-usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi.html and you can install driver once ESXi is installed.

Again, this isn't a new workflow if you're familiar with ESXi

Thanks! The problem I was trying that process with 6.7 and I always get "not image profile found" and I supposed that the problem was that it works only for updates on pre-installed systems.

But now I decided to get an USB card to install vsphere 8 so before purchesing it I want to be sure I could fresh install it.

Thanks again