VmWare ESXi 5.0 Unable to install drivers into CentOS7

DustinB3403

Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 kernel 
headers.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

This doesn't seem to work

Nor does any of the other steps that I'm seeing. Anyone know how to make this work?

scottalanmiller

As @John-Nicholson pointed out yesterday... ESXi 5.0 is ancient and out of support. Update that thing.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in VmWare ESXi 5.0 Unable to install drivers into CentOS7:

As @John-Nicholson pointed out yesterday... ESXi 5.0 is ancient and out of support. Update that thing.

Yeah. . . . . not an option.

coliver

@DustinB3403 said in VmWare ESXi 5.0 Unable to install drivers into CentOS7:

@scottalanmiller said in VmWare ESXi 5.0 Unable to install drivers into CentOS7:

As @John-Nicholson pointed out yesterday... ESXi 5.0 is ancient and out of support. Update that thing.

Yeah. . . . . not an option.

Then you're probably SOL.

black3dynamite

Can you use centos 6.9?

momurda

From the vmware esxi doc
CentOS 7
64-Bit Guest OS Support
Release Supported Releases Support Details
CentOS 7.x Workstation12.5, 12.0, 11.0
Fusion8.5, 8.0, 7.0

ESXi6.0 U3, 6.0 U2, 6.0 U1, 6.0, 5.5 U3, 5.5 U2, 5.5 U1, 5.5

Even just getting to 5.5 would get you support for centos 7. Upgrading esxi only takes a few minutes. I suppose if it is running something that "needs" to be on all the time it might be a problem. although it does look like 6.X is supported in esxi 5, and centos 6.x still getting updated regularly.

DustinB3403

Not worth the effort for the case.

Thanks for the help guys.