Aaron Delp’s BladeVault

This afternoon I attempted to load VMWare ESX 3.5 in a VMWare Workstation 6.02 Virtual Machine. I downloaded the latest version of the white paper from xtravirt.com and followed the directions. The ESX VM boots fine and everything looks great. I then created a VM inside the ESX server and tried to power it on, and….. BOOM! Hard crash on the ESX VM.

I asked one of my co-workers, Tim, who has this running with ESX 3.02 in VMs. After some digging it turns out that 3.5 in a VM doesn’t seem to work right now. A number of people are having the same issue. Here and Here are links to some threads about it.

For now, I’m going to punt and go back to 3.02 to set up my VMotion environment and play with it another time. To Be Continued…

Thanks to Tim for your help!

UPDATE: It looks like in the few hours since I checked this out VMWare has stated that this will be fixed in Workstation 6.5!

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