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ledude1
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Start Support for Virtualizing Real Mode

Hi all.

For whatever reason, my ESXI 6.0 go berzerk and since I've been holding on upgrade to the latest version, I thought this will be the best time to upgrade the ESXi to 6.7.  Well, found out the hard way, my Xeon is a bit on the old side and I can't boot up all my VM in the old machine using the 6.7 because the Xeon doesn't support the virtualizing real mode.  So I now have to downgrade it back but I'm wondering which version should I downgrade it back to so that I can boot my VM back?  I know the 6.0 works just fine with the current VM.  Will 6.5 give me the same issue as 6.7 with the VRM error?   Please advise?

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daphnissov
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Well seeing as how you haven't actually told us what your CPU was, we're all left guessing. 6.5 may be fine. But then ago, who knows.

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ledude1
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I apologize.  Too (removed) off that the whole thing is (removed) out that I forgot to attach the information on the CPU.  This is what I have.

4 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz

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ledude1
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I ran a quick test for the compatibility list and this is what I got.  So I'm going to try it and see whether it'll do.  Thanks again.

VMware Compatibility Guide - cpu

Intel Xeon 34xx Lynnfield Series4c/8t6.1E0x000106E0
ESXi
6.5 U36.5 U26.5 U16.56.0 U3
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