You may not power on a VM on a VM

[George_Yu]

On vSphere 4.0 host A, set up a VM B with vSphere 4.0. Using the VM B as a host ( call it host B), set up another VM C. When power on the VM C on host B. got the error message:

You may not power on a VM on a VM.

How can I fix it?

Thanks.

George

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Hello George,

in order to power on nested VMs you need to set monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "TRUE"

see http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/

André

[George_Yu]

Thank you very much!

George