This has been on my to-do list for awhile but it was finding the time to document the process but also I normally like to take it a step further and see how I can make it even more simple 🙂ĭisclaimer: Running ESXi on an Apple Mac Mini is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk The other reason is that some folks would like to build their own custom ISO and include other drivers/packages and others are just interested in the process. This has worked for the majority of folks but I have received several requests for those that may not be comfortable with just downloading a random ISO on the internet, which I can fully understand. I took it upon myself to help simplify it by building custom ESXi ISO's for most of the major ESXi releases so that users could simply install ESXi as they normally would and by-pass all the complexity. Though there workarounds for these issue, the process was quite complex.
These challenges range from known SMC issues from Apple to missing or updated Broadcom tg3 network drivers. For those of you who own an Apple Mac Mini 6,2 may recall some of the, lets call them 'challenges' on getting ESXi to run on the Mini.
