intro

Welcome to adventures in 3D Virtualization. - I do not represent VMWare, ASUS, Corsair, or nVidia in anyway shape or form.   Please contact your graphics supplier for drivers.

We'll start off with my machine specs:


PNY GTX 560 Ti 1GB (Primary)
PNY Quadro 4000 2GB GDDR5 (Secondary)
64GB Corsair 1600mHz DDR3 (Running XMP Profile 1)
ASUS Sabertooh X79
Core i7 3930K
Issues with hardware: resolved / replaced mobo there was a bad pin on the CPU socket

DIMM_D1 and DIMM_D2 list a loaded chip as "Abnormal", same chip loads as OK in A/B/C 1/2 slots.  Rotated all chips around can only get board to load with A1 B1 C1/2 filled instead of optimum A1/B1/C1/D1 for full Quad channel.

Software Specs:

ESXi 5.1 build 799733
Chilly e1000e net driver vib driver setup - needed for the Intel NIC on the SaberX79
nVidia vib kb2033434 - (looks like it's been removed)
ESXi Customizer
ESXi TGZ2VIB converter


Use the converter to change chilly's network driver from a tgz to a vib.

Use the customizer to make an imager, add chilly's package to the iso.
Rename the Custom.iso to Chilly.iso

Use the customizer on your new custom to make another image, add the nvidia vib this time.
Burn your latest Custom.iso,   When I tried to install the nVidia VIB on my initial install I received a there is not enough space to install the module message.

Install the ESXi.....