Hi Friends,
I tried building my first ever home lab using latest and fast CPU i7 8700 hoping this will help me to test most of the VMware products, however I ended up with problems now.
I am not sure if I made a wrong choice but I am ended up with a problem where I am unable to get VMs powered on on a neated ESXi host configured on VMware workstation.
I tried by installing ESXi(any version 6/6.5/6.7) os on an intel i7 8700 processor with Z370 chipset on my home lab. When I verified the VMware.log for the vm hosted on nested esxi os found a list with feature compatible and required one's.
Later I realized this CPU family is not in VMware HCL.
Now I am trying a way to get my home lab to work.
I visited many blogs and what I understand is that I have to make a CPUID change that can fool the VM as if it's running on the older INTEL CPU family.
Now I am looking for some help for changing the CPUID in the VMX file for the VM to behave like a i7 7700 or even lower CPU family.
Kindly help me to get my home lab working.
Also please suggest if any other method to get this working.
Also I wanted to understand if Windows 10 is causing some problem as I read similar iaauis reported in community blogs for VMware.
Thanks,
Murali