Nested ESXi 5.5 lab

Essendon

Having one hell of a time getting my nested lab up and running. Anyone nested ESXi 5.5 yet? I am trying to nest 5.5 inside of 5.1, but I cannot get the host to pass on the virtualization bits to the virtual ESXi hosts and get the error about hardware virtualization not being turned on in the host. I have followed this link already, so there's more to it - possibly the .vmx file needs some other entry for 5.5.

So what are you guys doing for a nested lab? Workstation?

Essendon

The physical machine is a HP DL380 G5, 5.0 ran effortlessly on this thing.

kj0

Damn, I saw a thing about this the other day and didn't take much notice as I have 5.5 running really well, nested in Workstation. I'll see if I can find it. check virtuallyGhetto there might be something there. Or I can ask William if he knows.

Essendon

What version of Workstation do you have mate?

kj0

I'm using 10. Although, I did have it running inside 9 as well.

But, I'm intrigued. I must try this nesting in 5.1 now.

kj0

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I don't think it was this one, so I'll keep looking, but it may help.

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/08/how-to-enable-nested-esxi-other.html

Essendon

Awright it turns out that my 380 G5 doesnt do EPT - this means while I can install nested ESXi 5.5, I cannot install 64 bit guests inside of those nested ESXi hosts. Not too much of a problem for labbing purposes.