I have a ESXi 8.1 host running under VMWare Workstation. The guest operating system is Windows xp, an image of a legacy production PC. One of the software products running on the guest connects to a device by a parallel port. I have installed a Startech Parallel port card in Windows 11 , the host for VMWare Workstation and installed the drivers. It has correclty identified the card in Windows. In ESXi 8 i have tried to discover the device in the host and configure it for passthru but it is not showing up.
I think I need to add the card drivers to the host. the card has a ASIX MosChip 99xx and I have located the drivers for the host. I cannot get the drivers to load by injecting them in using the command "esxcli software vib install –d /tmp/AX99100_SP_PP_SPI_Linux_Driver_v1.9.0_Source.tar" after copying the zip file to the /tmp folder on the host.
the error I am getting is Error: "Unknown command or namespace software vib install –d /tmp/AX99100_SP_PP_SPI_Linux_Driver_v1.9.0_Source.tar"
Am I approching this wrongly or missing steps out earlier on ?
Thanks