Nested RHEV 3 with ESXi 5
Hello! Have a problem with playing RHEV3 in VMs like nested hypervisors on my home ESXi5 machine (proc - Intel 5120).All deployment have going right until launch KVM machines (on RHEV6.2 hypervisor...
View ArticleCreating the Workstation 8.x VM on the ESXi 5.x VM
HI In a VM created with ESXi 5.x, I can also install Workstation 8.x with its VM? Sorry, but if I try to write a post on the VMware vSphere forum, I get the "You are not authorized to enter a post in...
View Article64-bit guest inside ESXi 5.0 inside ESXi 5.0 (nested vm)
I'm trying to run 64-bit guest inside ESXi 5.0 inside ESXi 5.0. It wasn't possible to run nested VMs in ESXi 4.x, but as far as I know it's now possible in 5.0. But I still get this error when I start...
View Articleesxi 5 on vm work station
Hi i have install server 2008 r2 on my server machine . that is 64 bit os . now i installed vmware workstation 8.0 in that then i install win 7 32 bit into vmware as 1st vm . now i want...
View ArticleInstalling 64-bit os on ESXi in Lab environment
I have an AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor 3.40 GHz on my pc with 8 GB of RAM. I installed vmware workstation 8 on it. I want to create a vmware view lab environment. I installed ESXi 5 on my vmware...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 nested FT issue -> i7-2600 not supported for FT ?
Hi guys, I have got a i7-2600 on a ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen 3 motherboard as a ESXi 5.0 whitebox setup. I have 2 virtualised ESXi 5.0 in a cluster with a nested Linux VM running, both vMotion &...
View Articlemulticast support for nested VMs
Hello I been experimenting for the last couple of days with the ESXi 5 hypervisor. Here is my current conceptual setup: 1 physical machince -> 1 VMware Player 4 VM running ESXi 5 hypervisor ->...
View ArticleNested ESXi VM not seeing disk
I am trying to create an ESXi5 vm inside a physical ESXi5 server. I only have 1 local datastore on that server and when try to install the ESXi in the VM there is not disk recogonized/seen by the...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 as a VM
For pure testing and self-training purposes I installed VMware ESXi 5.0 as a VM inside a VMware ESXi 5.0 (physical) host.How should I configure the network interface to let the VM ESXi use it?Is there...
View ArticleProblem install windows 2008 64 on ESXi 5 on Virtual Box
Hello everybody,I installed ESXi 5 on virtual box 4.1.8, and I tried to install windwos 2008 r2 64bit on the ESX , but I couldn't, I got a message says: 64-bit operation is not possible.My PC has I5...
View ArticlevShpere 5 running inside Fusion 4.1
I have successfully installed vSphere 5 inside Fusion 4.1 but what I am not successful at is getting MS Windows 2008 R2 64-Bit to install. Here is what I am doingConnect to vSphere 5 using the client...
View ArticleWorkstation / ESXi issue - force vSphere Client to grab CD-ROM drive
This week I started developing a practice system at home for me to learn VMware and systems administration. I've installed ESXi 5 and Windows 7 in Workstation 8, which resides on Windows Server 2008 on...
View ArticleHardware advice for Workstation
Hi I'm new to the community and have searched for this already but haven't found the info I require, so apologies if this is a common question. I'm about to build a new PC to run Workstation on. I will...
View ArticleNo video for guest VMs with ESXi 5 on Workstation 8
Good day! When powering on any VM within ESXi 5 nested inside Workstation 8, I get no video whatsover. There's no POST, BIOS, if an ISO is loaded, there's no video in the console to show it's loading...
View ArticleIdeas for setting up a vm network part physical, part nested
Hi All,I want to set up a physical vmware vsphere 5 test network. With 2 x ESXi hosts so i can perform failover.so i have 2 servers:1= HP Proliant DL320G5p, 4GB RAM & Intel Xeon dual core...
View ArticleESXi 5 Loading New VM from ISO
I have ESXi 5 loaded on my server and I have uploaded a known working ISO file ( I booted it to a stand alone server and it works) to my datastore, yet when I boot the new vm it goes straight to pxe...
View ArticleESXi-on-ESXi 5.0 strange issue with CPU cycles
Hi,I deploy a ESXi nested hypervisor and have have 19 VM's runing in the virtual ESX, half of them are 64 bit OS's.I start to see some problem swith CPU competition by the VM's, where in esxtop the RDY...
View ArticleHyper-V on Windows Server 2008 in VMWare workstation 8 and Processor Support
I am having Dell L401X with Intel i7 740 QM processor. http://ark.intel.com/products/49024/Intel-Core-i7-740QM-Processor-(6M-cache-1_73-GHz) I am using vmware workstation 8 and trying to install the...
View ArticleDoes ivy bridge (i7-3770) support for nested virtualization?
Hello everybody, I want to buy a Core i7-3770 CPU, but... According to the Intel official page http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology It is show that "3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7...
View Articlenot able to power on VM on ESXi host created on my laptop 3G i7 intel processor
Hi, I am not able to power on virtual machines over my esxi hosts which I have created using workstation. My processor specification is 3G intel core i7 2.3 GHz with VT-x enabled. Can anyone please...
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