Hello together,
i'm currently evaluating VMWare vSphere for our company and got stuck on the installation of two devices in an ESXi 5.1 host running on an Intel S2600GZ server board, where both are essential for the evalution:
The first is an Intel X540-AT2 network card, that was installed after the installation of the ESXi host (perhabs the problem?). Looking into the dmesg output, here is what i got:
/etc/vmware # lspci | grep X540
00:07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X540-AT2 [vmnic6]
00:07:00.1 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X540-AT2 [vmnic7]
And for getting VID and DID:
/etc/vmware # lspci -p | grep 00:07
00:07:00.0 8086:1528 8086:0001 10/ 10/0xd8 B V vmnic6
00:07:00.1 8086:1528 8086:0001 11/ 11/0x21 A V vmnic7
I saw that there was no driver attached, so i went to the VMware Compatibility Guide and found this ixgbe driver, what perfectly matched my device.
But after downloading and installing the new driver nothing changed. I checked the installation to be sure:
/etc/vmware # esxcli software vib list | grep ixgbe
net-ixgbe 3.11.32-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Intel VMwareCertified 2012-12-20
and as a last approach i thought that looking into dmesg would bring more light into the problem:
/etc/vmware # dmesg
...
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)<6>Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 3.11.32iov
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)<6>Copyright (c) 1999-2012 Intel Corporation.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)PCI: driver ixgbe is looking for devices
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 654: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.0' destroyed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.953Z cpu25:8786)LinPCI: LinuxPCI_DeviceUnclaimed:147: Device 0000:07:00 unclaimed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 609: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' created using mapper 'DMANull'.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)DMA: 654: DMA Engine 'vmklnxpci-0:7:0.1' destroyed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)LinPCI: LinuxPCI_DeviceUnclaimed:147: Device 0000:07:01 unclaimed.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)PCI: driver ixgbe claimed 0 device
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)Mod: 4485: Initialization of ixgbe succeeded with module ID 27.
2012-12-20T15:49:33.954Z cpu25:8786)ixgbe loaded successfully.
...
Didn't help me much, but i hope you can get something from that.
On the second device, an Intel Corporation Patsburg 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller, I ran the same approach:
/etc/vmware # lspci -p | grep 00:09
00:09:00.0 8086:1d69 8086:3583 11/ 11/0xd0 A V vmhba3
00:09:00.3 8086:1d70 8086:3582 5/ / C V
found driver rste (build in into 5.1), but as well, this driver didn't claim the device (perhabs because it is running in sata mode?):
/etc/vmware # dmesg
...
2012-12-20T15:49:42.137Z cpu2:8852)Loading module rste ...
2012-12-20T15:49:42.138Z cpu2:8852)Elf: 1852: module rste has license BSD
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)Device: 90: Registered driver 'RSTe' from 68
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)Mod: 4485: Initialization of rste succeeded with module ID 68.
2012-12-20T15:49:42.143Z cpu2:8852)rste loaded successfully.
...
And i found this:
/etc/vmware # cat /var/log/vmkdevmgr.log | grep rste
2012-12-20T15:49:42.499Z| vthread-3| I120: Found driver rste for device bus=pci addr=00:09:00.0 id=8086:1d69 8086:3583.
2012-12-20T15:49:42.502Z| vthread-3| I120: Error binding driver rste for bus=pci addr=00:09:00.0 id=8086:1d69 8086:3583: No such file or directory
I really hope you guys get a clue on this, or you have another point i can look at.
Greets,
Markus Andree