I have a need to install ESXi on my iMac.
Its an i7 2.8GHz with 8GB of RAM.
I followed the basic steps of creating a new VM, selected ESX as the guest operating system (and one time pointed to the ISO and let Fusion detect that it was ESXi).
When I start the machine, it runs, I can ping it, and I can work in the menus. But after approxiamtely 30 seconds, the ESXi server crashes. I get this error:
I have tried different builds of ESXi, including 4.1, 4.0 Update 2 and 4.0 Update 1.
I have increased RAM, increased processor count and tried different hardware settings (the default includes a USB controller that I removed)
There is nothing special about my MAC so I'm confused why I'm having trouble with a supported version of ESX in Fusion.
Any advice would be appreciated. I know the Forums have been a great help to me in the past.
Thanks for the help,
Steve