VMTN

I only used 2 processors as the VMware contact I had said it was more stable with it, but if it works for you then should be good for all.

Yes I saw the post on ESX and had a look on the web site. Very cool!

I use more or less the same with only one CPU and

more SCSI-disks

That is great news.  I was bummed out because my home machine is a single core Athlon, but now there is hope.  ; )

To summarize, these are the only lines that need to be added to the .VMX file?

scsi0.virtualDev = ”lsilogic“

ethernet0.virtualDev = ”e1000“

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = ”TRUE“

monitor_control.vt32 = ”TRUE“

  or for AMD processors

monitor_control.enable_svm = "TRUE"

More specifically, the scsiX.virtualDev line(s) need to be changed if not ”lsilogic“.  The other three lines need to be added at a mininum, and additional NICs need to be set to "e1000".

Thanks

SVM (aka AMD-V) is not available on all AMD processors.  You will need Rev. F or later.

Dave - 2 CPUs may work nice on hosts with 4 cores.

I tried with one and two CPUs until Oliver convinced me to use one only.

Dave  - do you know that you can run the same VMs that you run on your WS 6 directly inside the ESX in a VM ?

I use a Windows NFS-server to offer a directory to ESX.

If you edit the diskdescriptor you can exchange VMs between WS and ESX - see

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=91694&tstart=0

What a great topic!

After i got my laptop from my new boss, i noticed it was a VT aware Dell D620.

So first thing to do was to surf to this topic, and start to create my own virtual infrastructure. And i got it rolling! Fast and nice.

Workstation 6:

2x ESX 3.01

1x OpenFiler Appliance (iSCSI)

VirtualCenter + Client on the physical laptop.

Just for playing and testing i can run 1 vm on the ESX hosts, and even VMotion between them!

Next thing to do is to get my new boss to throw in some extra Memory.

Thanks to all that contributed to this topic!

Cheers,

Harold

Hi all,

Somebody can help me,  I have install ESX in VMware sucefull, but the boot as very slow, 60miutes or more...

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ , and I followed the manual of xtravir, and change the configuration to

###

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.adressType = "generated"

###end

.....

###

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

monitor_control.enable_svm= TRUE

##

The line monitor_control.enable_svm, it did not help, the ESX in slow slow slow on boot, and my computer CPU always in 100%...

Help Me

Best Regards

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Did you install the system to IDE or to SCSI - I got the impression that IDE is faster ...

Did you give enough RAM ?

Is your 3500+ a socket AM2 part or a socket 939 part?  I believe the 3500+ comes in both flavors.  Only the socket AM2 parts have SVM.

Thanks continuum, jmattson

I have installed with SCSI, my VM Machine has 512RAM

The problem is the CPU, my Athlon, not have socket AM2

Best Regards

The problem is the CPU, my Athlon, not have socket

AM2

Here is a tool that will state, among other things, whether or not your CPU can do hardware virtualization.  Unfortunately, mine can't.

The problem is the CPU, my Athlon, not have socket

AM2

Here is a tool that can tell you, among other things, if your CPU can do hardware virtualization.

http://www.grc.com/securable.htm

(I wish we could edit our posts)  : (

You can if you return within 15 minutes of posting.  the behaviour was changed to prevent nefarious posted from bumping their post back to the top of the list be editing.

Does anyone know if it is possible (or has been successful) to run ESX 2.5 as a virtual machine.

Let me clarify - I am able to successfully install ESX 2.5, boot, etc.

The problem is that I am not able to configure any vmfs partitions therefore there is not much I can do.

Thanks.

The same settings as with ESX 3 apply.

Make sure to use an lsilogic SCSI controller.

Yep, just got it working.

I used the "Workstation 4, ESX Compatible" and, as oreeh correctly stated, used the LSI logic SCSI controller.