ESX on VMWARE workstation

[SulemanNawaz]

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Hi I’m new user of ESX & I want to practice on it befor instaling on my server,

so can

i install ESX server on VMware workstation on my Laptop?

[admin]

Perhaps. ESX 4 is supported as a guest under Workstation 7. However, your system must have a CPU on which we support hardware-assisted virtualization (see ).

[khughes]

Yes as long as your laptop is somewhat recent and has a CPU that has VT (virtualization technology). If you have a intel core duo or core2duo you should be fine. Where you get a little hairy is if you're running a Celeron model. Workstation 7 will support ESX as a guest OS which is awesome, but it will hit your laptop resources pretty hard, so don't expect it to be lighting fast.

• Kyle

[weinstein5]

This also might help - http://virtualfuture.info/2009/06/xtravirt-how-to-install-esx-40-on-workstation-652-as-a-vm/

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