The settings have to be configured in the host's (HP Pavillion) system. I don't know how this BIOS looks like, you may search for the settings (usually CPU settings). As mentioned before, after modifying the setting, power cycle the system!
André
Your system is listed in HCL?
Have you tried to disable the Power Management in the BIOS?
I have HP Pavillion laptop with i3 processor 2.2 GHz and 4 GB RAM. Any idea how to get rid of that error?
Are you trying to install ESXi natively on the hardware or do you install it as a VM in e.g. VMware Workstation?
André
On VMware workstation 8. During setup, I have allocated 2GB RAM with 2 Processors and 50 GB hard disk.
Have you choose ESXi as guest VM?
Make sure the following settings are configured in the system's BIOS (if possible):
If you are still not able to install ESXi, please post (attach) the vmware.log file from the ESXi VMs folder.
André
Common: MSR 0x3a = 0x1
This indicates that you don't have Virtualization Technology (VT-x) enabled in your system's BIOS.
André
PS: After modifying the CPU settings in the BIOS, you need to power cycle the system (power off/power on). A simple reboot is not sufficient!
Oh!! Can you tell me the exact process, how to do it? Do I need to configure BIOS settings of host OS or guest OS?
The settings have to be configured in the host's (HP Pavillion) system. I don't know how this BIOS looks like, you may search for the settings (usually CPU settings). As mentioned before, after modifying the setting, power cycle the system!
André
Hi Neo,
Always make sure that ESXi Hypervisor can only be installed on 64-BIT x86 CPUs.
Always remember that you should enable Intel-VT on your System BIOS Setup.
You should also have one or more Gigabit or 10Gigabit Ethernet Controllers.
You should have enough storage capacity. Try to consume 40 GB of your Hard Disk using your virtual laboratory infrastructure (VMware Workstation 8.0)
Note: Try to increase your ESXi Host RAM into 3GB, because I believe that is one of the best practices.
Another thing to take note is that, try to deploy your ESXi host as a VM with a Custom type of configuration on the New Virtual Machine Wizard of your VMware Workstation 8.0
I hope this can help you a lot man. If you find this useful, I hope you'll consider awarding points
Done it!!! And it is working now.....under my BIOS setting, there was an option of Virtualization which was disabled.
Thanks alot to every one.