I created two solaris 10 (32 bit) vm's and did not have any trouble with them. Now one of them will not power on after a reboot of the esx host. I powered down the guest and then entered maintenance mode and rebooted the host. This was where I noticed that the one VM would not power back on. I removed it from inventory and deleted it from disk and tried to rebuild it. I get all the way to the end of disk one where it prompts to change to disk 2 and reboot. I change the disk and click reboot and the system reboots but can not resume. It prompts to choose between normal startup and the failsafe and then goes to a black screen and powers off. When I put disk one back in it does the same thing.
When the host was taken down for a reboot, I changed the bios settings for Virtualization Technology to Enabled. I have three hosts and all three are now set to enabled. The other solaris box I have created before changing this bios setting has not rebooted or been powered it down so I'm not sure if this is the problem. I can't loose this other solaris box so trying a reboot on it is not an option.
Any thoughts on why I can't get this solaris install to work or the reboot/power on problem?
I found this in the Task & Events:
VMware ESX Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) Could not reserve memory for vmm64. Are you sure your VM specifies a 64-bit guest OS type?
The ISO files that I used are for the 32 bit Solaris 10 install. Not sure why it is giving this message.
