ESXi Hypervisor 6.7.0 installation freezes

[erwinxiao]

Greetings,

I met some problem during my installation for the VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0-8169922.x86_64. It was frozen after dvfilter-generic-fastpath loaded succesfully.

I checked a similar post in this forum and someone asked to press Alt+F12 to switch to the log screen and I did that. However, it didn't say any error of the hardware,

instead, it just got frozen at the step below:

Any help is appreciated.

[erwinxiao]

Also my laptop is HP laptop using Samsung SSD not Apple MAC.

[daphnissov · Accepted solution]

A laptop is not supported hardware and they usually won't even work to begin with. Recommend you get other hardware for ESXi.

[sk84]

It seems that the installation process hangs during the discovery of your SATA controller. But as daphnissov​ mentioned, an HP laptop is not a supported hardware...

[SupreetK]

In addition to what daphnissov​ and sk84​ have rightly mentioned, you can try to install using the HPE custom image -

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI67-HPE&productId=742&download=true&...

Please consider marking this answer as "correct" or "helpful" if you think your questions have been answered.

Cheers,

Supreet

[diegodco31]

Try using Running Nested VMs.

Your laptop install windows or linux + vmware workstation.

After create one VM with esxi.

Let us know if you fix your problem, otherwise we can provide additional ways to move that VM.

[erwinxiao]

Thanks everyone! Good to know!