Installing esxi 5.1 on a virtual machine on esxi 5.1, getting "VMWare requires the Execute Disable/No Execute CPU feature to be enabled"

[inikolaev82]

Hi,

I am trying to install a ESXi server on a virtual machine in a vSphere 5.1 environment, but keep getting the purple screen with "VMWare requires the Execute Disable/No Execute CPU feature to be enabled" notification.

I have set guest OS to ESXi 5.x and CPU/MMU virtualization to Intel VT-x/AMD-v (tried both for MMU and EPT/RVI options).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Eli

[a_nut_in]

Hi Eli,

Check this link

virtuallyGhetto: How to Enable Nested ESXi & Other Hypervisors in vSphere 5.1

Regards

a

[inikolaev82]

Hi,

Thanks for your response!

I have this checkbox grayed out, does this mean that I am unable to run nested ESXi on this server?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9eeLsTPfH24/UC6V0MjjZkI/AAAAAAAADTk/vaJXCLYIfFA/s1600/vws-3.png

BTW It's esxi 5.0, not 5.1

Kind regards,

Ilya Nikolaev

[a_nut_in]

Hi Ilya,

If that box is greyed out, this means that virtualization support may not be present. You can confirm by running the CPU utility

Shared Utilities

[NagangoudaPatil]

If your Desktop support Intel-VT or AMD-VT feature enable that feature logging into BIOS and you required 64Bit compatible CPU and 2 GB memory for ESXi 4.1 or ESXi 5.1, try with vmware workstation 9.0 or in .vmx file you need add one line.