VMWare ESXi is a well-known software for virtualization purposes in many companies (an alternative to Microsoft Hyper-V, also very popular).įor example, I’m using it at work, to run several Linux systems, and host different services on each one. Folks will be glad to know we improved the stability of RTL8153-based USB3 NIC support.If you are lost in all these new words and abbreviations, request my free Raspberry Pi glossary here (PDF format)!īefore going to the installation part, let me introduce a bit what we will do and what you need to know and do in this tutorial.

At this time, VMs cannot span more than one NUMA node, so you’ll only be able to start an 80 core VM 😉.įinally, a number of small stability and performance improvements have been folded in. This has been made possible by NVIDIA’s ongoing work to add UEFI firmware and ACPI support to Xavier-based platforms.Īdditionally, the 1.4 refresh adds experimental support for the two socket Ampere Altra-based systems, such as the Mt. Do note that the onboard GPU is not supported at this time. Probably the most exciting change is the new experimental support for the NVIDIA Tegra Xavier-based development kits – the Jetson Xavier AGX and Jetson Xavier NX.īoth the NX and AGX support USB networking and NVMe, and the AGX also adds a PCIe slot and more (32GiB ECC!) DRAM.

Updated documentation for ESXi-Arm Fling, Raspberry Pi, Ampere Altra, NVIDIA Xavier AGX & NVIDIA Xavier NX (See download for details).

Improve USB stability issues, especially with RTL8153-based USB NICs (a common chipset) and especially on Raspberry Pi and Tegra Xavier.

Improve compatibility with newer guest OS linux kernels.

Improve interrupt controller virtualization.Fix virtual NVMe support in UEFI and some OSes.Improved VM performance for multi-socket Arm servers.Experimental support for 2P Ampere Altra-based servers (Mt.Experimental support for NVIDIA Tegra Xavier AGX and NVIDIA Tegra Xavier NX (PCIe, USB, NVMe, SATA).Fix virtual AHCI support for some ACPI OSes.The 1.4 refresh brings a number of improvements: And what better way to celebrate innovation than by updating our ESXi-Arm Fling? This week is VMware’s R&D Innovation Offsite, aka RADIO – a unique, internal, multi-day conference bringing together our engineers and fueling the innovative products of tomorrow.

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