Does the Bios inside a Workstation VM support VT?

[jamieorth]

Here is the situation:

I am creating a Site Recovery Manager Lab using Workstation 7.1 The problem I am running into is that I cannot create a 64bit VM inside the ESXi 4.1 VM that is running as a VM inside Workstation. The physical host has VT enabled, and Workstation 7.1 has no issues with 64bit VM's as the ESXi 4.1 installed just fine. I want to run the vCenter / SRM VM's inside the ESXi VM but it looks like I might have to go back to 4.0 so the vCenter / SRM can be 32bit??

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Jamie

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[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

no. The Hardware VT cannot be passed down to the guest. So, there is no way to enable VT in a VM's BIOS.

[jamieorth]

Bummer

It's a very nice thing to be able to use Workstation to demo / learn vSphere, but with everything moving to 64bit its gonna be a little difficult now. Hopefully there will be a way to pass the bios setting on in future releases.

Thanks Troy for the quick reply.

Regards...

Jamie

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