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I create my guest based on VMware Hardware Version 9 in accordance with your articles The comments on this post gave me the last push.

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When I looked further I ran into this post, for nested 64 bit on vSphere v5.1. But I got the "HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION WARNING: Hardware Virtualization is not a feature of the CPU.

DELL POWEREDGE 1950 VMWARE ESXI 6 INSTALL

After following all the leads and reading some more documentation I was able to install ESXi 5.5 as guest on my ESXi host. Looking for a way to share my hardware with others I stumbled upon your article about nested 64 bit on vSphere v5.

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On the fly I try to pick up some knowledge of Windows Server, Linux and VMware. I need virtualization for my network labs (exam prep). I'm a newbie on VMware and recently started playing around with ESXi 5.5 on two self built, i7 980X 6-core & i7 950 4-core based servers. William, thank you for sharing this information. vmx parameter which tells the underlying guestOS (Hyper-V) that it is not running as a virtual guest which in fact it really is. Step 3 - You will need to add one additional. Step 2 - Enable VHV under the CPU section if you wish to create and run nested 64-bit VMs under Hyper-V In this example, I selected Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) as the guestOS version. Step 1 - Create a Virtual Hardware 9 VM and select the appropriate guestOS. The process if very straight forward just like running nested ESXi host. Nesting "Other" Hypervisorsįor those of you who feel inclined to run other hypervisors such as Hyper-V, you can do so with latest release of ESXi 5.1. because I can? 😉 VHV is one of the coolest " unsupported" feature in my books and I'm glad it is working beyond what it was designed for.įor proper networking connectivity, also ensure that either your standard vSwitch or Distributed Virtual Switch has both promiscuous mode and forged transmit enabled either globally on the portgroup or distributed portgroup your nested ESXi hosts are connected to. well I don't have a good answer other than. You might ask why would someone want to do this. Step 1 - Create a new Virtual Hardware 9 Virtual Machine using the new vSphere Web Client that's available with vCenter Server 5.1. Enabling VHV (Virtual Hardware-Assisted Virtualization) Note: You can run a nested ESXi 5.1 VM on top of a physical ESXi 5.0 host, just follow the instructions here.

You can now enable VHV on a per VM basis and using the new vSphere Web Client which basically adds the vhv.enable = "true" parameter to the VM's.

This also allows for better portability between VMware's hosted products such as VMware Fusion and Workstation as they also support the vhv.enable parameter. A new parameter has been introduced called vhv.enable = "true" that is now defined on a per VM basis to provide finer granularity of VHV support.

vhv.allow = "true" is no longer valid for ESXi 5.1 to enable VHV.

You will still need to enable promiscuous mode on the portgroup that will be used for your nested ESXi VM for network connectivity.

The new Virtual Hardware 9 compatibility will be required when creating your nested ESXi VM, Virtual Hardware 8 will not work if you are running ESXi 5.1 on your physical host.

With vSphere 5.1, there have been a few minor changes to enable VHV. If you are using vSphere 5.0 to run Nested ESXi or other nested Hypervisors, then please take a look at the instructions in this article. There are some changes with Nested Virtualization in vSphere 5.1 also officially known as VHV ( Virtual Hardware-Assisted Virtualization). You will need to login with your root credentials and then look for the " nestedHVSupported" property and if it states false, it means you maybe able to install nested ESXi or other hypervisor, but you will not be able to run nested 64-bit VMs, only 32-bit VMs, assuming you have either Intel-VT or AMD-V support on your CPUs.įor more details, take a look at this article for troubleshooting: Having Difficulties Enabling Nested ESXi in vSphere 5.1?ĭisclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk.

Intel EPT or AMD RVI is required for running nested 64-bit VMs.Ī quick way to verify whether your CPU truly supports both Intel-VT+EPT or AMD-V+RVI, you can paste the following into a browser:.

Intel VT-x or AMD-V is required for running " Nested Virtualization" which supports nested 32-bit VMs.

You will still need to have the same physical CPU prerequisites as you did in the past to run " Nested Virtualization" as well as nesting 64-bit VMs. There are a ton of new features with the latest release of vSphere 5.1, but the one " unsupported" feature I always test first is " Nested Virtualization" (aka Nested ESXi) and with the latest release, it seems to have gotten even better.