Build ESX drivers
Nick Couchman has started a topic on how-to build your own ESX/ESXi drivers using linux sources and the freely GPL code from VMware and he has been successful in doing so.
Required components
In order to do this you need to get yourself the following components:
- The code of the module that you want to add support for
- CentOS 3.9 in a virtual machine build environment is going to be the easiest way to get going, you can use the latest update from the centOS web site.
- The GPL components from ESX. Here's a link to the ESX3.5 Update 3 sources.
Beware that VMware will NOT support your configuration with home-grown drivers
External links
- The communities thread GPL Components - build ESX Drivers?
- The project at sourceforge open-vdrivers
At the time of writing this, the project has not released any sources, yet, but it has these entries on the wiki:
