It’s still cheaper than buying a new stick.īack to the old drawing board. Thankfully I’m using Ansible to build everything so I don’t have to figure everything out again and it won’t take but a few hours. Now I need to reinstall the ESXi and rebuild my VMs. Wish I had seen that posting before I got everything else set up. I searched the forum of course but apparently, my searching skills are deficient. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. I moved to Docker containers on my laptop initially to make this transition easier. Moving to a server running ESXi was always in the plan. I choose poorly though and bought one that doesn’t support VT-D (or, as I’m now reading, it is just disabled in the BIOS and I’ve not checked in which case I’m going to be mad at days of lost effort making this all work again) so I’m stuck on 32-bit OS’s and therefore can’t use Docker containers like on my old setup. My old laptop ran low on RAM so I bought a cheap desktop server to run ESXi. Has anyone experienced the same problem and solved it, or have any advice for how to get this to work? I’ve moved the controller back to the old laptop and after a little bit longer than expected it was able to resolve all of the devices.

At least there are no errors and everything appears as it should. Open Zwave Control Panel seems perfectly able to interrogate and communicate with the controller on this same VM. They remain unknown.Īll of the nodes currently added to the controller are mains powered. However, the Things never resolve to their device type. The zwave binding is able to connect to the device and communicated with it at least well enough to download the nodes and add the Things to the inbox.

I’ve configured the USB passthrough by adding it as a new USB device to the VM and it shows up just fine. I’ve plugged the dongle directly into the host machine, no hubs or other things to get in the way. Most everything seems to be working just fine except I cannot get my zwave dongle to work. I’m migrating my home to an ESXi 6.5 server.

Esxi 6.5 cannot download vmdk file