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dominic7
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎10-18-2007 09:10 PM

VMware ESX on Vmware Fusion

For those of you like me who have Macs and want to run ESX in a VM, check out this quick tutorial and you should be up and running in no time.

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Mr-E
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-25-2007 04:20 PM

This is excellent! just what I needed.

One question, should the ESX installation work in graphical mode or text mode only? I've just tried the graphical mode and hit a Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1

Thanks for this very useful resource.

Mr-E

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Mr-E
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-25-2007 04:42 PM

Update.... installing in text mode works perfectly.

I now have a test ESX server... woohoo!

Mr-E

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dominic7
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎10-26-2007 06:28 AM

I didn't have any trouble using the graphical installation. I wonder what the difference is? What type of mac were you installing on?

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Mr-E
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Contributor
‎10-27-2007 10:54 AM

iMac (24") - with the upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

I may try it again later, but was happy enough to get it going in text mode...

Mr-E

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TomHowarth
Leadership
Leadership
‎10-28-2007 11:00 AM

virtualising virtual host running on virtual software, ouch my head is starting to hurt Smiley Wink

Kind Regards

Tom,

Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
VMware Communities User Moderator
Blog: http://www.planetvm.net
Contributing author on VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment
Contributing author on VCP VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410
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Mr-E
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Contributor
‎10-28-2007 02:48 PM

Further update: It appears it was my own problem, I was actually using a 3.0.0 CD, thinking it was the latest version (doh!), once I downloaded the latest ISO off the website, the graphic install works great!!

Mr-E

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romman
Contributor
Contributor
‎10-29-2007 02:15 PM

Sweet!

I'm going to try this today on my Mac Pro!

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