ESXi as unraid guest

[hasselltech]

Ive been using unraid for several months and recently upgraded to 6.2. In the posting I saw that 6.2 has vmware as a vm listed as working and I have not been able to find a guide or mention on how to do this. I have attempted to setup such a vm however it fails on initializing the chipset. I apologize if this is a simple fix but google and lime tech searches for the error and/or configuration does not display what i'm looking for.  The esxi installation failure is with 5.5 update 2 and the error is listed as esxinvm. I'm sure there's a setting that I have to apply to modify so that it doesn't see it as a vm or sets it to allow installation as vm.

 

"Nested virtualization support

 

Now you can install VMWare on unRAID as a VM itself!  Yup!  It really works!

Thank you for your help and patience.

 

[hasselltech]

It's been a couple days and I finally got a chance to look more into this problem. I've finally figured out how to get past the mentioned error for those interested on my progress.

Steps I took

Deployed vm from linux template,

cpu mode is set to host passthrough

selected logical cpus

specific memory amounts

set machine to q35-2.5

Bios to SeaBios (OVMF appears to work as well)

primary vdisk bus to Sata

 

Once the remaining devices were configured there were 2 modifications needed to be made on the xml.

select the vm, then select edit xml. Find the network interface

<interface type='bridge'>

      <mac address='XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX'/>

      <source bridge='virbr0'/>  i believe this could also be 'br0' depending on what you specified during creation.

      <model type='virtio'/> 

 

  change <model type='virtio'/> to <model type='vmxnet3'/>

 

  second modification is adding the following between </devices> and </domain>

 

  <qemu:commandline>

    <qemu:arg value='-machine'/>

    <qemu:arg value='vmport=off'/>

  </qemu:commandline>

 

  Please also make note of these changes as updating the vm  settings will require you to readd thie changes.

  If you have any tips or tricks regarding this stuff, please feel free to post. Credit  goes to the following link

  http://jonathonreinhart.blogspot.com/2015/11/installing-esxi-in-qemu-kvm-virtual.html

[macmus]

I'm not able to register ESXi in vcenter once I install it this way.

I  can deploy VMS inside ESXI but cannot register to vcenter.

 

It failes with "generic error".

 

Does anyone had this issue ?

 

When I install ESXi within Virtualbox it does register without issues, but inside unRAID it fails.