Can you install esxi on hyper v

Also, this is still a preview feature and so may still have issues. I tried this with ESX 6. Has anyone tried this? Like Like. Is this error being displayed in Hyper-V Manager? Unfortunately neither see the PCI device with lscpi however a recent live linux guest does. Unfortunately no appearance in lspci, so same as 6. I encountered the same error with ESXi 6. By adding vmx. That was a mistake. I have got the ESXi 6. Would you know what could be the issue? Host — Server with hyper-v role guest 1 — ESXi 6.

If you look through the comments there is a lot of discussion on this problem and ways of fixing it. Those 3 VMs could communicate with each other.

I ended up having a setup with 4 x Hyper-V VMs Like Liked by 2 people. Like Liked by 1 person. The install goes fine, configuration fine, set up my storage etc, and when I come to create a VM:. Nesting is enabled, running the script again tells me no action required as nesting is enabled. Any ideas? I think the switch type to use in this case is an Internal switch.

Sure you can, Create an External vSwitch, this create a vSwitch on the Hyper-V host Win 8 or 10 or Server which ever you have Hyper-V installed on, this will bind the vSwitch to a physical adapter on the host. Find this IP and ping away. In my case I setup a Windows 7 virtual machine and connected to the external vSwitch. I then added a secondary nic on this VM connected to my internal vSwitch.

Wow… Really superb blog. Thanks for the idea. Successfully done. Otherwise I need to install VMware,. Hi there thanks heaps — managed to get all working — now how do i go about adding the storage? Hope to hear back from you. Does that help? Thanks for this great post! I managed to get this solution working today on a Windows Server box — just with VMware 6.

Have you had a look through the other comments here as I think someone else had the problem and resolved it. Couple of small updates, the downloader script is now version 2. Thank you very much for creating this post Daniel, this helped me a lot to create a test lab I need to practice for my exam and your guide is very helpful. Hi Guys, Very nice article.

If I find another way will notify. This requires Nested Virtualization support which is only available on Windows 10 or Windows Server I also doubt this will work with ESXi 5. Wow… Thanks for such great post… Its saved our dollars of hardware cost to learn vmware.

There are a number of comments above that should show various solutions to this problem. It is a bit annoying that the networking is so difficult to get working properly. Thank you for your post. It is really interesting. Concerning the problem with 6. Do you think that a solution will be available in the futur or is it totally dead? The ISO file will be created in the script directory.

You can modify this behavior by using one or more of the following parameters: -v50 : Create the latest ESXi 5. Great info Matthew. In theory the 6. As for the 6. That may mean that there is some compatibility issue with the tulip driver with 6. If only all these companies would get along and find a standard! If I can get it working will certainly let you know. I have a beast of a home lab rig, but ESXi 6 and 6. In My lab, this article is working.

Is it possible to run 64 Bit Gust OS? For me Everything is working as this article explains, but any VMs on Legacy Network adapter is not communicating with any other VMs on the same switch with standard network adapter. I have server Hyper-v. Please help. There are reported fixes in the comments though, so you could try some of those. Hello Daniel. I had the issue where my ESXi hosts unable to communicate with my vCenter server and other servers on same virtual switch.

I figured it out, it is communication problem between legacy network adapter and standard network adapter. I had to use legacy network adapter on all of my servers and ESXi host for them to communicate.

My lab is up and running. I have another issue where a virtual machine is not powering on. I get this error message. It looks like it is nesting issue. Some people have reported seeing this. Is this message occurring in a VM running inside the hyper-v host? Hope this helps! If you are installing v6. It will depend on if the Tulip drivers are compatible and available with ESXi 6.

But the process I documented does work for ESXi 6. I have other VMs in Hyper-V connected to the same external switch and they pickup addresses just fine. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. Switched it over to ethernet and am now good to go. Thank you for this guide, it has really helped setting up my VMware test lab. Does anyone have a link to an alternate driver which works with ESXi 5? I encountered this error while installing ESX, did some research and found your article on Net. I followed the steps properly and were successfully able to install ESX Hypervisor 6.

Thanks a lot again. Both of my ESXi hosts are Gen1 machines. It means that you can run a VM inside a Virtual Machine. It can be useful only in a testing environment because it is really not supported in production! So in this article, I will install VMware. PowerCLI Wait a moment until the installation finishes. Once the installation is done, you can run the customizer script:. The script will download the ESXi 6. The newly adapter will be a legacy adapter. In our case, download the image with the number ESXi Enter and press Enter.

Then create a new virtual machine on your Hyper-V host. Use the following settings for Hyper-V VM:. If you try to boot a virtual machine from your ESXi install image, an error of a video adapter incompatible with VMkernel appears:. The ESXi installer will check the hardware configuration, detect a network card and offer to continue ESXi image installation on a virtual disk.