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12 Replies Last post: Oct 29, 2009 11:37 AM by awliste  

Hyper-V on VMWare products? posted: Apr 22, 2008 10:35 AM

Click to view Mrkus's profile Novice 3 posts since
Apr 22, 2008

Hello,

Is it possible to get Hyper-V working on products like VMware Workstation 6.03 or any other...? :0

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

1. Apr 22, 2008 10:37 AM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,346 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
why ;)

seriously I have not even attempted to try it. have a go and report back.

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Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

2. Apr 22, 2008 10:48 AM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,943 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
Unfortunately you won't be able to get Hyper-V working in a VM at this time. In addition to running on x64 CPUs, Hyper-V does require direct access to the Intel VT or AMD-V CPU extensions which the VMware virtual CPU does not pass through to the VM.

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

3. Apr 22, 2008 10:50 AM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,346 posts since
Jul 25, 2005

oh well that scuppers that experiment then :)

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Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

5. Apr 22, 2008 12:36 PM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view daniel_uk's profile Expert 999 posts since
Oct 24, 2005
Interesting, i wonder how the ESX on WS works then?

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

6. Apr 22, 2008 1:03 PM in response to: daniel_uk
Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,943 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
ESX can run on a 32 bit processor and the virtual CPUs are serviced with either direct execution or binary translation. The virtual CPU for Workstation is able to provide that. But you could then only run a 32 bit VM on top of the ESX VM. You wouldn't be able to run a 64 bit VM on top of the ESX VM unless workstation could provide a virtual CPU with Intel-VT / AMD-V extensions.

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

7. Apr 22, 2008 1:05 PM in response to: daniel_uk
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,346 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
ESX 3.0.x works fine on WS6. it is ESX 3.5 that has issues under WS6. it will run and load but not run any guests.

Tom Howarth
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Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

9. Apr 22, 2008 2:11 PM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view tom howarth's profile Guru 7,346 posts since
Jul 25, 2005
Sounds like ESX to me :)

Tom Howarth
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Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

10. Apr 23, 2008 1:38 AM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,943 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
JeOS is a step in that direction. It's still an OS to run for the application, but it is designed to be as thin as possible - http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos. VMware Fusion and Workstation 6.5 (beta) have the Unity feature which makes your virtualized app look like it is running on the host OS.

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

11. Oct 29, 2009 11:30 AM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view dtibet's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Aug 22, 2009
Hi you should try Virtual Computers NxTop Engine; works exactly the way you described it is a true bare-metal hypervisor that you can build yours OS image as you wish..

Re: Hyper-V on VMWare products?

12. Oct 29, 2009 11:37 AM in response to: Mrkus
Click to view awliste's profile Enthusiast 44 posts since
Jun 10, 2009
Read some interesting chatter on hypervisors embedded into processors recently.

That would be pretty cool. I'd like to see a hypervisor that lets me assemble my own machine; eg, "Let's see... I'd like a northbridge like this, a southbridge like this... some bus speed over here... some different buffer sizes here..."

That kind of granularity would be extremely interesting and very impressive.
- abe


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