Greets, Actually you start to run into problems trying to virtualize-inside-of virtualization, but there are some things you can do with that. Also two of my test machines are not real ser...
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Greets, Actually you start to run into problems trying to virtualize-inside-of virtualization, but there are some things you can do with that. Also two of my test machines are not real servers at all. They are nVidia 680i based Core2Duo chips (dual and quad) that also run everything but the power management features of ESX. If you only have the 1 PC what I really recommend is finding 1 more to use as a vCenter control station, and maybe a second hard drive on your existing machine that you can use for VMDK storage. Then the only thing you need is a 1GB or 2GB USB key, install ESXi 4 on it and see if you can boot from it. If not, then just install ESX or ESXi 4 directly on your storage hard drive and you will have at least 1 ESX machine to work with. One of the benefits to an 1850 is that if you boot ESXi 4 from USB key, you can run the server itself with no hard drives if you use an iSCSI storage device. Otherwise you can use the internal storage. The only limitation for an 1850 in a test lab is that it will not run 64bit VMs. No VT support. But it will run 32 bit everything else. The Core 2 boxes I have will run anything and are fully VT enabled. No power support though. So its a trade off.