Windows 10: HYPER-V and ESXI Kari - have you tried this

Hi there
has anybody especially @Kari tried creating an ESXI VM on HYPER-V and then attaching VM's to the Esxi VM.

I'd imagine if possible the response time would be quite good as Esxi is such a TINY OS.

Running esxi as a VM would also get round some of its pickier bits on hardware selection too.

I've had success with W2K3 server as a VM serving a number of VM's using W7 enterprise as a Host (for the W2K3 VM) -- time though to get rid of this - and looking for an easy way to serve a load of VM's without having to re-create them all. The version of W2K3 server I was using allows 64 bit guests so W10 VM's were working fine.

Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

Windows 10 Broken Start Menu

This piece of information in was in no way helpful. I've worked around large and small virtualization environments for years. I am more than experienced in Hyper V and VMWare Server/ESXI. How does your post even pertain to the issue I'm having.

 

CPU not supported for Windows 10?

Yes, you are right, I forgot they were also used in high-end workstations.

But the problem is that they are old.

I have a couple of these CPUs in an old server and I struggled for a week to find a suitable hyper-visor to use on it.

ESXi told me that the CPUs are unsupported and refused to install.

In the end I installed Windows 2012 Server Hyper-V and it seems to work ok.

My point is that being so old Microsoft seems to have dropped support for it, just like VMware did...

 

Interesting idea. Decided to test, will report back with results.

 

Thanks --love to see those

Cheers
jimbo

 

It does not work, I cannot get ESXi install to proceed from what's seen in screenshot in my previous post. It's been "Relocating modules and starting up the kernel" now for two hours.

 

Hi there

@Kari

I'm having better luck running Esxi as a VM on VMWARE on W2K3 Host - have a spare machine to do this and a VL licence for W2K3 server - but the object of the exercise was to avoid the main HOST overhead. VM's connect also without problem but I/O goes BONKERS - even with an SSD. !!

I got a W7 and W10 VM to connect but even with SSD the HDD light stayed hard on -- running on a 64 GB Ram Hyperthreading CPU machine so no lack of hardware resources.

Watching the Footie now !!! France tonight - but Iceland doing great --pity last night Own goal against Hungary in last 5 mins !!! so 1-1 Grrrrrhh ! - but we still could qualify - last match against Austria next week. (One point on Wednesday will be enough !!!).

Cheers
jimbo

 

My understanding is that nested virtualization has only recently been added to Hyper-V, and I've only seen it in the context of running Hyper-V within Hyper-V. (ESX and to some extent VMWare Workstation have had a hidden way to gain partial nested virtualization for quite some time).

See Nested Virtualization

There's also a page here that has a lot of resources:

NESTED VIRTUALIZATION | virtuallyGhetto

The nesting is largely dependent upon the nested instance (in this case esxi) so there may be a special configuration you have to apply to make this work in Hyper-V.

Just found this:

Install a VMWare ESXi 6.0 Hypervisor in a Hyper-V VM | PowerShell, Programming and DevOps

 

Hi there

Thanks for the info -- I'll look at that esxi with your link

Cheers
jimbo