This is pretty neat . I can run these "thin bare metal" hypervisor ESXi free versions from within VMware workstation 6.0 . I followed the steps provided on xtravirt.com for regular ESX 3.5 and applied it for the hypervisor.
All you have to do , is to create a new "Other Linux 64bit" VM and then close VMware and add the following in the VMX file :
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE
monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE
monitor_control.enable_svm = TRUE (add this only if you use an AMD processor )
Then download the freeware hypervisor iso file (ESXi 3.5 U2) off the VMware website and install it.
I could setup the management network and connect VI client to access the ESXi box.
We can even setup VMotion by using a VCenter VM and 2 ESXi boxes , with shared storage provided by a filer appliance like openfiler.
This is going to be my next step , I'm off to buy more RAM to run all of these , would be difficult to squeeze all the above VMs in 2gigs.
All you have to do , is to create a new "Other Linux 64bit" VM and then close VMware and add the following in the VMX file :
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = TRUE
monitor_control.vt32 = TRUE
monitor_control.enable_svm = TRUE (add this only if you use an AMD processor )
Then download the freeware hypervisor iso file (ESXi 3.5 U2) off the VMware website and install it.
I could setup the management network and connect VI client to access the ESXi box.
We can even setup VMotion by using a VCenter VM and 2 ESXi boxes , with shared storage provided by a filer appliance like openfiler.
This is going to be my next step , I'm off to buy more RAM to run all of these , would be difficult to squeeze all the above VMs in 2gigs.
