[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

Hi, many thanks to all contributed to DSM on on PC and on ESXi!

 

just wanted to share my small experience so far.

 

CPU: Xeon E3-1265L-v2

MB: Jetway NF9E-Q77

HDD: 500Gb Hitachi

SAS/SATA: Adaptec 7805, so far only 1Tb WD SATA disk is connected for testing (the disk has MBR)

 

- compiled aacraid.ko for DSM from the source code avaliable at Adaptec's site

- enabled pcipassthru for 7805 in ESXi

- added PCI controller to DSM's VM

- added pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = "FALSE" to my .vmx file

- copied aacraid.ko and arcconf (command-line tool for linux x64) to DSM

- insmod aacraid.ko

 

I do not have dmesg and arcconf outputs to post now but both aacraid.ko and arcconf seems to work.

DSM does see the diskas eSATA, but as opposed to arcconf, DSM does not display SMART in its web shell - SMART is not supported msg pops up.

 

Will keep playing

 

Hi tsygam,

 

do you confirm that the Jetway NF9E-Q77 is working flawlessly with the adaptec 7805 ?

I have tested this mobo with an Adaptec 2405 and any OS will freeze at startup.