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60. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
Jae Ellers May 14, 2007 12:22 PM (in response to astorrs)Just need to setup 2 ESX and one NetApp simulator w/ iSCSI luns.
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61. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
RDPetruska May 14, 2007 12:25 PM (in response to Jae Ellers)Just need to setup 2 ESX and one NetApp simulator w/ iSCSI luns.
LOL! You're gonna lug all that around just for a demo? We're talking here about giving a presentation, with just your laptop (like almost all presentations are done).
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62. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
Jae Ellers May 14, 2007 12:43 PM (in response to RDPetruska)The NetApp simulator is the NetApp OS (data OnTap) that runs under linux. So I don't see the problem with installing a 3rd vm to do a vmotion demo....
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63. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
astorrs May 14, 2007 12:52 PM (in response to Jae Ellers)That would work fine. I'll probably use OpenFiler for my test. My poor little HDD is gonna be groaning all the while...
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64. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
frapposelli May 14, 2007 10:04 PM (in response to Anders)I've tried to vmotion a vm between two "virtual" esx using NFS as shared storage but it fails with time syncing errors (as shown in vmkernel log).
What kind of obscure parameters we have to get a better timekeeping in virtual machines? i've got the very same issues with Sun Cluster, a node panic itself because it can't keep time accurately.
ciao,
Fabio
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65. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
MayurPatel May 17, 2007 2:45 AM (in response to Anders)Anders,
If VT is not essential does that mean it should work on a laptop or PC which does not have a dual core processor?
Although I have made it work on a PC with a dual core processor running Workstation 6 Beta, and I have tried it on a rather older P4 processor machine, it installs VI3 perfectly and infact starts up properly also but it throws up a failure on one service I believe is the storage initialization.
MP
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66. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
oreeh May 17, 2007 5:28 AM (in response to MayurPatel)If VT is not essential does that mean it should work on a laptop or PC which does not have a dual core processor?
Yes - but it is awfully slow and therefore nearly unusable.
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67. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
MayurPatel May 17, 2007 5:52 AM (in response to oreeh)For some reason it doesn't work on mine even being slower, simply I receive a message about sending a dump to VMware support when I logon as root on the console.
Although the http service starts with a \[OK] I cannot connect to the web interface either because I cannot ping the server. I have configured the VNIC's as e1000 and the disk as LSILogic in the vmx file along with the other special lines as mentioned in this thread.
I will get the exact messages and post them to identify why it is not running for me.
Thanks
MP
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68. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
mikelane May 22, 2007 12:28 PM (in response to richard6121)I can upgrade my work box to one with an E6700 Core 2 Duo Processor.
Do you think i can get away with 2Gb of RAM?
This is just for learning ESX and loading a VM to see how it all works.
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69. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
oreeh May 22, 2007 12:31 PM (in response to mikelane)Installing ESX and running one small VM works with 2GB.
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70. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
continuum May 22, 2007 12:32 PM (in response to oreeh)Is it really "running" or "crawling" ?
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71. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
oreeh May 22, 2007 12:37 PM (in response to continuum)On my laptop ESX 3 boots inside a WS6 VM as fast as on a HP DL585 box with 4 CPUs and 32GB RAM.
The installation of a FreeBSD VM takes a bit longer - but I won't call it crawling.
The VM startup isn't as fast as in a WS6 VM but not that bad.
When it is booted I don't see a big difference to a WS6 or a "real" ESX VM.
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oreeh
You should of course not start the ESX VM when running with battery power...
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72. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
Do7AN May 22, 2007 12:44 PM (in response to richard6121)I have reinstalled ESX and this is what my vmx file looks like. It is seeming to hang at Loading VMkernel mptscsi_2xx
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
numvcpus = "2"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "512"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "ESXDolan.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "ESXDolan"
guestOS = "vmkernel"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE
monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE
scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d b7 1c af 66 56 81-a7 7a 8a 29 ac 76 5d a0"
uuid.bios = "56 4d b7 1c af 66 56 81-a7 7a 8a 29 ac 76 5d a0"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:76:5d:a0"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
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73. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
oreeh May 22, 2007 12:48 PM (in response to Do7AN)Are you sure you are running this with WS6?
If yes recreate the VM and make sure you use the WS6 virtual HW version.
some further suggestions:
change guestOS from "vmkernel" to "other"
increase the RAM to at least 1024MB
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74. Re: Ability to run ESX as a Workstation guest
continuum May 22, 2007 12:49 PM (in response to Do7AN)That's a WS 5 VM - this discussion talks about WS 6 VMs