We have released a small update to the ESXi-Arm Fling today to address some issues reported by the community. New installs and upgrades from a previous installation of the ESXi-Arm 1.x Fling are supported. You can now update using the published Offline Bundle (zip), see below for instructions.
Tip: if your evaluation period has expired, you can perform a new installation; choose to preserve the VMFS filesystems, and register your VMs again.
Changes in this release
- Fix SMP boot issues on some micro-architectures.
- Improve high physical addresses memory nodes support.
- Add support for 3 kinds of USB NIC adaptors:
- Realtek RTL8153 serial 1G USB Network Adaptor
- Realtek RTL8152 serial 100M USB Network Adaptor
- ASIX AX88179/AX88178A serial 1G USB Network Adaptor
| Vendor | Chipset | VendorID | ProductID |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIX | AX88179 | 0x0b95 | 0x1790 |
| ASIX | AX88178a | 0x0b95 | 0x178a |
| CISCO LINKSYS | RTL8153 | 0x13b1 | 0x0041 |
| DLINK | AX88179 | 0x2001 | 0x4a00 |
| LENOVO | RTL8153 | 0x17ef | 0x3062 |
| LENOVO | RTL8153 | 0x17ef | 0x3069 |
| LENOVO | RTL8153 | 0x17ef | 0x720a |
| LENOVO | AX88179 | 0x17ef | 0x304b |
| LENOVO | RTL8153 | 0x17ef | 0x7205 |
| NVIDIA | RTL8153 | 0x0955 | 0x09ff |
| Qualcomm | RTL8153 | 0x1A56 | 0x3100 |
| Qualcomm | RTL8153 | 0x0b05 | 0x1976 |
| REALTEK | RTL8152 | 0x0bda | 0x8152 |
| REALTEK | RTL8153 | 0x045e | 0x07c6 |
| REALTEK | RTL8153 | 0x0bda | 0x8153 |
| SITECOMEU | AX88179 | 0x0df6 | 0x0072 |
| TP-LINK | RTL8153 | 0x2357 | 0x0601 |
Contact us
We’d love to hear more about your plans for ESXi on Arm. Please reach out to us at [email protected] with the following details to help us shape future releases:
- Company name
- Arm platform of choice
- Scale of deployment (number of servers/VMs)
- Types of workloads and use cases
- vSphere features of interest (HA, DRS, NSX, vSAN, Tanzu, vCD, etc)
Supported systems
The ESXi-Arm Fling should boot on any system that is (or close to) compliant to the Arm SystemReady ES or Arm SystemReady SR specifications. Known working systems include:
Datacenter and cloud
- Ampere Computing Altra and Altra Max-based systems
- Ampere Computing eMAG-based systems
- Arm Neoverse N1 SDP
Near edge
- SolidRun Honeycomb LX2
- SolidRun MACCHIATObin or CN9132 EVB
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Development Kit
Far edge
- Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB or 8GB models) and Pi 400
- NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX Development Kit
- NXP LS1046A Freeway Board and Reference Design Board
- Socionext SynQuacer Developerbox
- PINE64 Quartz64 Model A and SOQuartz (4GB or 8GB models)
- Firefly Station M2 and Station P2 (4GB or 8GB models)
If you are running the Fling on a system not on this list, please let us know!
