Sunday, February 6, 2011

ESX 4.1 - initialization of module ipmi_si_drv failed

If you encounter such problem and you are sure your system doesn't support ipmi, you can disable it by editing this file /etc/vmware/init/init.d/72.ipmi

Add in the following line (italic) and save the file.

return ${SUCCESS}

Exec esxcfg-init -I || {
return ${NON_CRITICAL_FAILURE}
}