Hello, community!
I decided to experiment and installed ESXi 5.1.0a onto a USB stick and ran it from my HP ProBook 4540s laptop. It installed successfully so I assume that the NIC drivers are present and the NIC is supported (because when I tried to install it on my old PC it wouldn't let me and told me that there are no NIC drivers for that interface).
After the system loads it successfully acquires the IP address from my DHCP (which is on my home router) or if I assign a static address -- it also works. I can ping the host and even login via the vClient. However after about one minute the host loses connectivity and I cannot ping it or log into it. Neither can I ping the router from the ESXi itself.
Tried doing this with direct connection (without the router) -- same thing.
Could someone suggest any solutions?
Thanks in advance!