Good afternoon,
I am having some issues starting a virtual machine inside my server 2012 R2 VM. I have search around the internet for a while finding several articles and forums on how to set up nested visualization including the official document on these forums but i am still having trouble.
My setup:
Physical host running - ESXI 5.5 1623387
Physcial machine - dell R720 (2x e5-2690 - supports VT-X and EPT and it is turned on in the BIOS, esxcfg confirms with "3")
VM - Server 2012 R2, fresh install, VM version 9 (vmx-09 created by web console)
I have added / tried every config option that i have found:
- I created the VM through the web console and checked "expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS"
- I ensured that vhv.enable = "TRUE" in the vmx config
- I have tried adding hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE" to the vmx config
- I have tried adding vhv.allow in addition to vhv.enable in the /etc/vmware/config but neither made a difference (found out it wasn't needed later on through a post on this forum)
- I have tried setting the guestOS name to "winhyperv" in the .vmx file
- I have tried setting the guestOS type to "ESXi 5.x" in the thick client
- I have set the cpu/mmu virtualiztion tick to the last one
- I have tried setting the level 1 ecx values as seen here
- I have ensured that monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"
- I have uninstalled the hyper-v role and reinstalled it after making these changes to no avail
- I have tried another ESXi 5.5 1331820 host with these setting and it doesn't work (VT-X confirmed as well)
- I have tried server 2016 instead of 2012 R2 and it doesn't work
I think that is about all the things i have tried. I'm sure i have probably missed something very obvious but any help would be appreciated.
This specific virtual machine has not generated a vmware.log file but another one of my test vms ( with the same exact issues on the second physical host) has generated a couple and i am attaching one of them and more can be supplied if needed.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Ian price clarification changes