Nested virtualization not available in Solaris 11.2

Hello!

Anybody know why virtual hardware virtualization is not available for my Solaris 11.2 guest?

I want to be able to use Solaris kernel zones.

Host environment:

   SuperMicro A1SRM-2758F, 32GB RAM

   ESXi-5.5 (build 2302651)

I know the CPU (Atom C2758) supports both VT-x and EPT that is required for 64bit virtualization nesting

And browsing to:

   https://myip/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=capability

Shows me that the (unsupported) feature is available:

I have created a VM with vHardware vmx-10, selected 'Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS' and installed Solaris-11.2 as a guest.

I have also checked that 'vhv.enable = "TRUE" ' is to be found in the vmx file.

But from the Solaris guest Kernel zone are not available:

# virtinfo

NAME            CLASS

vmware          current

non-global-zone supported

# uname -a

SunOS global1 5.11 11.2 i86pc i386 i86pc

Anybody have any ideas why this is not available. Worked fine in VMware Fusion.

Best regards,

- Morten Green Hermansen, Fanitas