Hi All,
I'm very new to the VMware game and I intend to start playing with the free products available and gain a good understanding of it.
My question that I've currenty got is this:
I have my desktop PC, I intend to install ESXi 5.1 hypervisor on it and then install a version of windows as a guest OS.
I hoped that I can configure it so that when I turn the computer on windows automatically boots - Thus if my wife wants to use the computer she still can and her experiance is no different. However I can then install multiple other OS' and activate them as and when I need to and have a good play.
Reading through documentation it doesn't look like this is possible?
I know this isn't strictly the intended purpose of the product but it would be convienient for me.
Has anyone come across this before? / Do you know of a way of doing this?
Many Thanks,
Tom Whittle
Welcome to the Community - It is possible to have a VM to start when the ESXi Hypervisor starts but where your solution falls short is you are not able to access the VMs from console of the ESXi host - you still need another machine to run the vSphere client so you can manage the ESXi host and access the VM -
Welcome to the Community - It is possible to have a VM to start when the ESXi Hypervisor starts but where your solution falls short is you are not able to access the VMs from console of the ESXi host - you still need another machine to run the vSphere client so you can manage the ESXi host and access the VM -
Hi,
Many Thanks for your response. I may have to fall back to my backup plan of Windows as the primary boot and having ESXi installed also but manually choosing to boot ESXi when I want to play with it.
I'm going to look at player / workstation as well but I really want to get some experiance with "proper" ESXi.
Thanks again,
Tom