Ok so I'm very new at vmware but I would like to set up a little demo for myself and play around with creating VM's and such. I have an old Laptop that I tried installing ESXi on but the installer fails and says it cannot find a network adapter. I tried using the ESXi customizer program to modify the .ISO with some other realtek drivers (8169 and 8168) but both resulted in the same error message. I tried looking for the realtek RTL8101E driver in .tgz or .vib format but count not come up with anything.
My questing is:
1. Is what I'm trying to do even possible?
a. If yes, what do i need to do to get esxi installed on this laptop.
Thanks in advance, Nick.