[Cialug] vmware ESXi 4 64 bit

[albus]

No I haven't. I'll give that a try.

Thanks.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Gray" <gray at cs.uni.edu>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] vmware ESXi 4 64 bit


> albus wrote:
>> Unless I don't understand it correctly, which is totally possible.
>> 
>> The Intel site says the 960 does. http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/pentium_d.htm
>> You do need to update the bios. Which I've done.
>> There is an option to turn it on in the bios, which it is.
>> 
> 
> Have you tried booting with "noacpi noapic nolapic" or similar options to the
> kernel?
> 
> Just because the chip supports virtualization doesn't mean that your bios is
> ESXi friendly.  Sometimes you need to bypass motherboard issues in order to get
> ESXi installed on hardware not listed in their directly-supported lists.
> 
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