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Realtek RTL8125 NIC driver for ESXi 6.7

This source code is based on realtek official source, VMware-ESXI-67U3-ODP and VMware-TOOLS-10.2.0-ODP.

Just do these steps:

• Prepare the building environment, I did it on CentOS 7
• Log in with root, make a folder name 'build' on /, make folder toolchain and vsphere in /build.
• Copy and extract gcc-4.8.0, binutils-2.22, glibc-2.3.4-2.41 to /build/toolchain/src
• Compile the toolchain, dest path is /build/toolchain/lin64
• Extract and copy vmkdrivers-gpl from 67U3-ODP to /build/vsphere
• Copy build-r8125.sh to /build/vsphere/vmkdrivers-gpl/
• Copy r8125 folder to /build/vsphere/vmkdrivers-gpl/vmkdrivers/src_9/drivers/net
• Run build-r8125.sh

Realtek PCIe FE / GBE / 2.5G / Gaming Ethernet Family Controller Software

• https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 Open Source Information

• https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads/details?downloadGroup=ESXI670-OSS&productId=742

Open Source Disclosure packages for VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7.0

• MD5SUM: 205b26afde7f87d5a68cc98203da9a6c
• SHA1SUM: 1f5c274fe4f737631cfad2d9a0bdaa00c4a55d65
• SHA256SUM: 00c387fb3361eb85d73729462f0e268e8752924d209557b3f9efbd617cd32c7c
• https://download3.vmware.com/software/vsphere67/open-source/VMware-ESXI-670-ODP.iso

Open Source Disclosure Package for VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 Toolchain

TOOLCHAIN packages, contains all the used toolchains during the build process, together with source, build instructions and build scripts.

• MD5SUM: 0a01bb88c6058aa9c5a966af48d13b87
• SHA1SUM: 09e18fa77bb2cbc7a9fffc874715602f2ab0aad6
• SHA256SUM: 4545117140af9fe4ba6969274834a95ecf173ce7836b2a6fbccb54aacb1da214
• https://download3.vmware.com/software/vsphere67/open-source/VMware-TOOLS-10.2.0-ODP.iso

test

esxcli software vib remove -n net-r8125 esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/net-r8125-9.006.04-1.vib