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Hi,<br />
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Why would you want to do this, what are you try to accomplish? <br />
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Cheers,
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Hi,

Why would you want to do this, what are you try to accomplish?

Cheers,

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No this can not be done.<br />
VMware supports selective hardware , therefore it can not work.<br />
Also it has built in check to not allow this.<br />
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GreetZ<br />

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No this can not be done.
VMware supports selective hardware , therefore it can not work.
Also it has built in check to not allow this.

GreetZ


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I'm trying to test out VMWare with the tools I have available. I guess I could get an eval of VMWare Workstation and go that route.
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I'm trying to test out VMWare with the tools I have available. I guess I could get an eval of VMWare Workstation and go that route.

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I dont believe that Hyper V will work. &nbsp;It &nbsp;requires Intel VT as a pre-requisite. &nbsp;Intel VT can not be provided to a nested VM.<br />
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ESX host can be done because it only needs to be 64 bit and doesn't require Intel VT, although you can only nest 32 bit VMs
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I dont believe that Hyper V will work.  It  requires Intel VT as a pre-requisite.  Intel VT can not be provided to a nested VM.

ESX host can be done because it only needs to be 64 bit and doesn't require Intel VT, although you can only nest 32 bit VMs

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I just installed VM Server on my Windows server and setup ESXi inside that and it's working fine for testing purposes.<br />
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Thanks for the help.
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I just installed VM Server on my Windows server and setup ESXi inside that and it's working fine for testing purposes.

Thanks for the help.

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I've seen how this can been done in VMWare Workstation. Has anyone seen this being done under Hyper-V?<br />
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Thanks.
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I've seen how this can been done in VMWare Workstation. Has anyone seen this being done under Hyper-V?

Thanks.

VMware vSphere 4 and ESXi in Hyper-V

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.