I have been pulling my hair out at this now. Trying to nest ESXi 5.5 inside of ESXi 5.1 on a HP DL380 G5, but I get the error: Hardware Virtualization is not turned on in the BIOS, when I attempt installing 5.5
I have already done:
- Edited the /etc/vmware/config file to vhv.allow = "true"
- Upgraded the VM to h/w v9
- Changed OS to ESXi 5.x (experimental)
- Tried editing the VM's .vmx file, by putting in vmkernel5 instead of other-64 in the guestOS field
None of this has worked, still get the message about Hardware Virtualization not being turned on in the BIOS of the VM. Anyone nested ESXi 5.5 yet? If so how did you do it and are there are any instructions out there. I have tried following the few blogs out there on the Internet but nothing's worked.
Also, the BIOS of the physical machine is upto date and ESXi 5.0 (nested or otherwise) ran flawlessly on this G5.
Help's appreciated. TIA!