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 Raspberry Pi 5 16 GB ESXi installer error

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Dominic Johnson posted Jan 20, 2025 10:21 AM

Hello, 

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 16 GB and wanted to try ESXi Fling on it. I got the latest v0.3 firmware on it and it does boot the installer USB however right after it loads the crypto modules I get the error shown in the attached screenshot. 

I am trying to use the latest "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0U3c-24449057.aarch64"
I have already updated the Pi to the latest firmware and tried a few different UEFI settings but nothing fixes this issue. 

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks! 

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Walter Plassche

I’m pretty sure this is because you don’t have a USB to ethernet adapter and because the ethernet port on the pi isn’t compatible with ESXi

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Broadcom Employee Cyprien Laplace

That's a very early issue when VMKernel starts. and I don't have a Pi5 16GB yet to debug the issue.

Have you tried booting a debian ISO with UEFI?