ESXi 5.1 on MacBook 4,1

13 Sep 2012

Well…  I got ESXi 5.0 installed on the MacBook but I was unable to get Mountain Lion to work.  VMWare just came out with ESXi 5.1 which supports Mountain Lion so I attempted to install ESXi 5.1 on a USB key and get it up and running on my MacBook.  5.1 was a little different from 5.0 as the installerhelper.sh appears to operate differently…?  Anyways, what I had to do was slipstream the sky2 driver into the ESXi 5.1 image, boot into “ESXi ‘No Network Adapters Found’” then Fn-Option-F1 into the console.  I then typed the following commands:

vmkload_mod sky2
esxcfg-init -n
vmkload_mod lvmdriver
install

Without the lvmdriver the install would not see the storage (USB or HDD)

I am now installing ESXi 5.1 onto my MacBook.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to run Mountain Lion from it