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Rocky Linux RC1 on ESXi-x86 & ESXi-Arm

05.01.2021 by William Lam // 4 Comments

We're happy to announce Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate 1 is now available! Read more here: https://t.co/92oFcJvjgw #RockyLinux #Linux #Community

— Rocky Linux (@rocky_linux) May 1, 2021

This morning, I saw that Rocky Linux RC1 was now available and includes support for both x86 and AARCH64 (Arm) and I wanted to give it a quick spin on both ESXi-x86 and ESXi-Arm.

ESXi-x86

I was succesful in installing Rocky Linux on ESXi-x86 using the CentOS GuestOS type and using the defaults. You will however need to disable Secure Boot (VM Options->Boot Options) as it is currently not supported.


If you do not, you will see the following error message when booting up the ISO: Verification failed: (0x1A) Security Violation


The default network adapter for this GOS in ESXi-x86 is using VMXNET3 and it was automatically detected. If you forgot to enable networking during the configuration wizard (like I did), you will need to login and edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens* and change enable=yes and reboot for the changes to go into effect.


VMware Tools can be installed by running the following commands:

yum -y install open-vm-tools
systemctl enable vmtoolsd
systemctl start vmtoolsd

ESXi-Arm

I was succesful in installing Rocky Linux on ESXi-Arm using the CentOS GuestOS type and using the defaults. Networking for ESXi-Arm is using e1000e and if you forgot to enable networking during the configuration wizard (like I did), you will need to login and edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens* and change enable=yes and reboot for the changes to go into effect.

Unlike Rocky Linux for x86, there is currently not a VMware Tools package that can be installed using yum and my attempts at compiling VMware Tools lead to missing packages that are currently not available in their repository. I have already filed an issue on the VMware Tools Github repo for tracking purposes.

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Categories // ESXi, ESXi-Arm Tags // Rocky Linux

Comments

  1. *protectedHaroon says

    05/01/2021 at 12:39 pm

    Hi William,

    Guest customizations are failing for Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 in ESXi 6.7. I filed a bug report at https://bugs.rockylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30 (the pull request at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/pull/513 looks promising).

    Thanks in advance for any help that you may be able to offer.

    Reply
  2. *protectedJordan Pisaniello says

    05/01/2021 at 7:22 pm

    Awesome write up, thank you for testing and covering us!

    Reply
  3. *protectedJay B. says

    05/04/2022 at 3:20 am

    Hi William, great writeup. I think you may have a typo in the service name, should be vmtoolsd instead of vmtoolsds

    Reply
    • William Lam says

      05/06/2022 at 6:06 am

      Yes, good catch. Just fixed

      Reply

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