Monday, August 27, 2012

ESXi 5 Running Nested VMs

SkyHi @ Monday, August 27, 2012
ESXi  5 on ESXi 5


To allow the use of this feature, the ESXi administrator must add the following configuration option to the/etc/vmware/config file on the physical host:
vhv.allow = TRUE and change the OS to VMWare ESXi 5.x



KVM on ESXi 5
change the OS to VMWARE ESX 5.x


Xen on ESXi 5
change the OS to VMWARE ESX 5.x
(use LSI Logic SAS for SCSI controller or else you will get ERROR: XEN Table is not found or AMD-VI IOMMU not found)


[root@centos6xen ~]# egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm constant_tsc up tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm svm extapic abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw xop arat
[root@centos6xen ~]#





Hyper on ESXi 5
coming..

REFERENCES
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970