Nested Virtual Machines

[Kevin2318]

Hi

I am having an issues with the following configuration:

Host: ESXi 5.0

Guest Windows 7

VMware Workstation Version 9.0.2

When trying to power on a virtual machine in vmware workstation in the Windows 7 guest we get the following error:

Running Vmware Workstation in a Virtual Machine requires the outer virtual machine to be configured as a Vmware ESX guest operating system. You cannot power on a virtual machine until the outer virtual machine is reconfigured.

I have seen some conflicting resources on line on how to resolve this.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

[a_p_]

Please take a look at Re: Nested Virtualization to see whether vhv.enable=TRUE in the Windows 7 guest's configuration helps.

André

[admin]

Please add the following to your Windows 7 configuration file:

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

[Kevin2318]

I looked at this but the question has not been answered on that post. So not sure if that is correct. I am putting these lines in the machines .vmx file on the esxi host and not in the vmx file on the workstation hosted vm??

[admin]

Kevin2318 wrote:

I looked at this but the question has not been answered on that post. So not sure if that is correct. I am putting these lines in the machines .vmx file on the esxi host and not in the vmx file on the workstation hosted vm??

Correct.

[Kevin2318]

is this the correct syntax:

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE

Or is it supposed to be:

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "TRUE"

or

monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"

Thanks.

[admin]

They all work.