Feb 12, 2017 - Luckily, there is an alternative method to running a Mac-based VM on. This will patch your VMware Workstation to unlock the capabilities to run a Mac OS. But first, let me cover the procedures for enabling this on ESXi. Step 2# Edit the Virtual Machine & Replace the VM Hard Disk. When the virtual machine created, point out your mouse on Edit virtual machine settings and click on it. Notice: After the virtual machine has been created, don’t turn it on otherwise you might lose the virtual machine and begin the steps from the beginning. There are a ton of new features with the latest release of vSphere 5.1, but the one ' unsupported' feature I always test first is ' Nested Virtualization' (aka Nested ESXi) and with the latest release, it seems to have gotten even better. You will still need to have the same physical CPU prerequisites as you did in the past to run ' Nested Virtualization' as well as nesting 64-bit VMs. • Intel VT-x or AMD-V is required for running ' Nested Virtualization' which supports nested 32-bit VMs • Intel EPT or AMD RVI is required for running nested 64-bit VMs. A quick way to verify whether your CPU truly supports both Intel-VT+EPT or AMD-V+RVI, you can paste the following into a browser: You will need to login with your root credentials and then look for the ' nestedHVSupported' property and if it states false, it means you maybe able to install nested ESXi or other hypervisor, but you will not be able to run nested 64-bit VMs, only 32-bit VMs, assuming you have either Intel-VT or AMD-V support on your CPUs. For more details, take a look at this article for troubleshooting: Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk. There are some changes with Nested Virtualization in vSphere 5.1 also officially known as VHV ( Virtual Hardware-Assisted Virtualization). If you are using vSphere 5.0 to run Nested ESXi or other nested Hypervisors, then please take a look at the instructions in this. With vSphere 5.1, there have been a few minor changes to enable VHV. • The new Virtual Hardware 9 compatibility will be required when creating your nested ESXi VM, Virtual Hardware 8 will not work if you are running ESXi 5.1 on your physical host. You will still need to enable promiscuous mode on the portgroup that will be used for your nested ESXi VM for network connectivity. • vhv.allow = 'true' is no longer valid for ESXi 5.1 to enable VHV. A new parameter has been introduced called vhv.enable = 'true' that is now defined on a per VM basis to provide finer granularity of VHV support. This also allows for better portability between VMware's hosted products such as VMware Fusion and Workstation as they also support the vhv.enable parameter. • You can now enable VHV on a per VM basis and using the new vSphere Web Client which basically adds the vhv.enable = 'true' parameter to the VM's.VMX configuration file. ![]() Video creater software for mac. Note: You can run a nested ESXi 5.1 VM on top of a physical ESXi 5.0 host, just follow the instructions. Enabling VHV (Virtual Hardware-Assisted Virtualization) Step 1 - Create a new Virtual Hardware 9 Virtual Machine using the new vSphere Web Client that's available with vCenter Server 5.1. Note: If this box is grayed out, it means that your physical CPU does not supported Intel VT-x + EPT or AMD-V + RVI which is required to run VHV OR that you are not using Virtual Hardware 9. If your CPU only supports Intel-VT or AMD-V, then you can still install nested ESXi, but you will only be able to run nested 32-bit VMs and not nested 64-bit VMs. Step 4 - It is still recommended that you change the guestOS Version to VMware ESXi 5.x after you have created the VM shell, as there are some special settings that are applied automatically. Unfortunately with the new vSphere Web Client, you will not be able to modify the guestOS after creation, so you will need to use the C# Client OR manually go into the.VMX and update guestOS = 'vmkernel5'. Now you are ready to install nested ESXi VMs as well as run nested 64-bit VMs within. If you have followed my previous article about you may recall a diagram about the levels of 'Inception' that can be performed with nested ESXi. That is, the number of times you could nest ESXi and still have it be in a 'functional' state. With vSphere 5.0, the limit that I was able to push was 2 levels of nested ESXi. With latest release of vSphere 5.1, I have been able to push that limit now to an extraordinary 3 levels of inception!
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