I woke up today to a wonderful sight. My ESXi 6.7 server bootlooping! It was failing with the error code 15 (Not Found) on a driver file. I know that I certainly did not delete it, but oh well this is what backups are for… I don’t have backups of the ESXi boot flashdrive, but
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You have probably noticed that network adapters in Linux now follow a naming convention of “enpXsY” or “wlpXsY” instead of “ethX” and “wlanX”. This is generally fine and doesn’t cause much issue. The one downside to the change is that Gentoo and Linux From Scratch VMs running on VMware will have ridiculous names like “eno16777728”.
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Installing open-vm-tools in Gentoo can lead to errors if the kernel is misconfigured. Here is how to fix that.