Configuring the outer virtual machine

[sparsh]

hello,

whenever i try to power on

error message show..."Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine requires the outer virtual machine to be configured for running a VMware ESX guest operating system. You cannot power on a virtual machine until the outer virtual machine is reconfigured."

don't know what to do ??

pls help

thank u

Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine requires the outer virtual machine to be configured for running a VMware ESX guest operating system. You cannot power on a virtual machine until the outer virtual machine is reconfigured."Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine requires the outer virtual machine to be configured for running a VMware ESX guest operating system. You cannot power on a virtual machine until the outer virtual machine is reconfigured.

[vmroyale]

Hello.

So are you trying to run nested ESX? Which products and versions are you working with?

Good Luck!

[sparsh]

hey thanks for ur reply

i m using esxi 5

[vmroyale]

Have you added

vhv.allow = "TRUE" 

to /etc/vmware/config on the outer ESXi 5 host?

You will need to use the ESXi Shell for this.

[sparsh]

i have added like as shown in file

actually i don't know how to do all this

pls help

is this correct?

[vmroyale]

The instructions for configuring and accessing the ESXi Shell are found in kb 2004746.

The following command can be used from the ESXi Shell to make the required change:

echo 'vhv.allow = "TRUE"' >> /etc/vmware/config

The attachment appears to be a virtual disk. You don't need to change anything on the nested ESXi. Just make the one change to the outer host. 
The command above comes from a good reference to use for this.

[admin]

The guestOS type in your esxi.vmx file is "other-64."  You should change this to:

guestOS = "vmkernel5"

[Troy_Clavell]

thread moved from VMware vSphere Hypervisor Community to Nested Virtualization Community

[sparsh]

hey thanks for ur reply

but still the problem persist

i made following change

but it seems that it does not work here

pls help

thanks

[sparsh]

other screen shots

[sorabhk5]

Did you reboot the base host after adding vhv.allow = "TRUE" @  /etc/vmware/config ....?

[sparsh]

hey,

i don't khow where to add this vhv.allow = "TRUE"

pls specify

new to this

pls help ,,,,provide some screen shots

thanks

[philip8]

Hello,

Running VMware ESXi 4.1.0 virtual on VMware ESXi 4.1.0.

First the I configured the virtual ESXi server as: Other 64-bit

The *.vmx file was configured with:

guestOS = "other-64"

Starting a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine on the virtual ESXi server gave me the following error:

Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine requires the outer virtual machine to be configured for running a VMware ESX guest operating system. You cannot power on a virtual machine until the outer virtual machine is reconfigured.

I made a change in the *.vmx file mentioned in this thread.

guestOS = "vmkernel"

This was the only change I made.

Power on the virtual VMware ESXi server. After that power on the virtual Windows Server 2003 on the virtual VMware ESXi server and it worked.

Thanks

Philip

[lelunha]

Thank you !