VMware ESXi 7.0 ARM Edition UEFI Firmware v1.23 – on a Raspberry Pi 4

On Raspberry Pi OS:
# apt-get update -y
# apt-get full-upgrade -y
# rpi-update
# rpi-eeprom-update
-a : automatically install bootloader and USB (VLI) EEPROM updates
-d : use the default bootloader config
# rpi-eeprom-update -d -a

Things you need to download:

Latest Raspberry Pi Firmware:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware

UEFI Raspberry Pi Firmware:
https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases

Edit config.txt
arm_64bit=1
enable_uart=1
uart_2ndstage=1
enable_gic=1
armstub=RPI_EFI.fd
disable_commandline_tags=1
disable_overscan=1
device_tree_address=0x1f0000
device_tree_end=0x200000
dtoverlay=miniuart-bt
gpu_mem=16

On ESXi (SSH):
[root@localhost:~] /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop
watchdog-usbarbitrator: Terminating watchdog process with PID 66927
stopping usbarbitrator…
usbarbitrator stopped
[root@localhost:~]
[root@localhost:~] chkconfig usbarbitrator off
[root@localhost:~]
[root@localhost:~] ls /dev/disks/
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0
mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0:1
mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0
mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0:1
mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0:5
mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0:6
mpx.vmhba33:C0:T0:L0:7
vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30
vml.0000000000766d68626133323a303a30:1
vml.01000000003443353330303031303531313237313032353733556c74726120
vml.01000000003443353330303031303531313237313032353733556c74726120:1
vml.01000000003443353330303031303531313237313032353733556c74726120:5
vml.01000000003443353330303031303531313237313032353733556c74726120:6
vml.01000000003443353330303031303531313237313032353733556c74726120:7
[root@localhost:~]
[root@localhost:~] partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L0 msdos
[root@localhost:~]

… VM Container mit Kali Linux 2021.1

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