bootstrap not available

[titiarmor]

Hi,

I have created a debian virtual machine in vmware workstation or vmware player. This machine starts correctly.

So i want to import this machine in vmware esxi.

So i have imported all files (all directory in fact) in datastore, this is ok for this operation.

After, i have added .vmx in inventory (with right click) ; after i want to start this machine and after a few seconds there is an error message "bootstrap is not available"

Thank you for your help.

Thierry

[Linjo]

What versions of workstation/esx are you using and what compability-level does the vm have?

// Linjo

[bharathl]

You can check the hard disk location of the VM and you can remove the disk and add again by selecting the existing disk and then power on the VM.

[titiarmor]

Hello !

workstation 11 and esx6.

regards,

Thierry

[titiarmor]

hi and thank you for your response but how can i do that because i'm not an expert 😉

Regards,

Thierry

[bharathl]

From workstation you can export the VM as ovf template and import to ESXi. Or As I said earlier you can right click the VM and go to edit settings and check the Hard disk location.

[titiarmor]

ok thank you for your responses, soory for delays (but i was workinf on another subjects..)

from vmware workstation 11, i have created an .ovf but in esx 5.5 , when deploying ovf model i have this message :

"line 25 : unsupported hardware family 'vmx11' '

i don't understand why because this operation is ok in esx 6 (in my test platform) !

thanks for your helps !

Thierry

[Linjo]

vmx-11 is quite new and is not supported by vSphere 5.5.

Use 9 or 10 instead.

// Linjo