I have an ESXi 5.5 guest hypervisor running on an ESXi 5.5 host hypervisor. I used vCenter Standalone Converter 5.5.2 to convert the guest hypervisor to a VMWare Workstation VM (v10).
Now the network adapter is not recognised by the ESXI 5.5 guest hypervisor running in Workstation 10. Specifically the error is “No compatible network adapter found. Please consult the products Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCG) for a list of supported adapters”. The networking on the guest hypervisor running on the ESXi 5.5 host hypervisor is working fine.
I tried removing the adapter and recreating it in Workstation, and there aren't that many settings in VMWare Workstation for network adapters so I don't know what I could be doing wrong there.
Notes:
- I originally had the guest ESXi running on Workstation 10 normally (networking all worked) and I actually used the standalone converter to put it up on the host ESXi in the first place. So from my perspective I basically just uploaded it and then downloaded it again and the network adapter stopped working - though I'm sure it's more complicated than that.
- I added vhv.enable = "true" to the vmx file both times after converting the VM.
- I enabled "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI" in the processor settings.
- On the guest ESXi that's running on the host ESXi I had the network set to be promiscuous, but I don't think I can do that yet on the Workstation one because the guest ESXi can't even see the network adapter at this stage.