ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

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richmaclannan
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ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by richmaclannan »

Hello!

Recently, I tried to install ESXi 6.5 on Virtualbox using 2 different methods:

- Direct install using the ESXi 6.5 ISO
- Install from ESXi 6.0 ISO and then upgrade to ESXi 6.5 (using offline bundle).

In both cases, Virtualbox PSODs with the following error (the PSOD screenshot is attached):
PCPU 0: no heartbeat (3/3 IPIs received)
ESXinVM cr0=0x8001003d cr2=0x430000ee6000 cr3=0x800c4000 cr4=0x12c
Any ideas? I've tried

- changing the network adapter type to Virtualbox's Intel Server
- setting the OS to RedHat 64 bit

but with no luck.

Thanks for any help received.
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by socratis »

Wikipedia wrote:VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor
Nested virtualization is not supported.
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richmaclannan
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by richmaclannan »

socratis wrote: Nested virtualization is not supported.
Granted. But it worked on ESXi 6.0, despite still being unsupported. And there are lots of people using ESXi 6.0 in an unsupported fashion.

Thus, if anyone has been able to get this unsupported hypervisor (ESXi 6.5) working within Virtualbox, I'd be interested to hear from you.

(Note that I'm clearly not running anything Enterprise-grade on my 16GB laptop; I need this for offline proof-of-concept work.)
Team_Player
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by Team_Player »

Good evening Richmaclannan,

I have just installed exsi 6.5 on virtualbox.

The storage at default setup in virtualbox creates the HDD and add it under the SATA controller. So i have just created a Fixed Drive (80GB) (Not dynamic) and added it under the IDE controller and there it goes....

Hope this helps you, because i couldn't find anything on the internet that helped.

Cheers....
rliegh
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by rliegh »

I was able to install just fine, but none of the network options worked for me. I went through all of the intel cards too.
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by sej7278 »

rliegh wrote:I was able to install just fine, but none of the network options worked for me. I went through all of the intel cards too.
how did you manage that - i've not been able to get past the pink screen since virtualbox 5.

it used to run esxi 5.5 just fine until they did something in virtualbox 5

edit: forget it, got it working using kvm-qemu. i now have centos7 running on esxi 6.5a running from within kvm on a debian9 host!

edit 2: vmware player 12.5 can also run esxi
Kelvin
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by Kelvin »

Team_Player wrote:Good evening Richmaclannan,

I have just installed exsi 6.5 on virtualbox.

The storage at default setup in virtualbox creates the HDD and add it under the SATA controller. So i have just created a Fixed Drive (80GB) (Not dynamic) and added it under the IDE controller and there it goes....

Hope this helps you, because i couldn't find anything on the internet that helped.

Cheers....

Thanks bro, My Issues was fixed with your solution. Cheers!
vsteve
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by vsteve »

Disabling USB worked for me.
Jay@DevOps
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Re: ESXi 6.5 fails to install on Virtualbox

Post by Jay@DevOps »

Problem still exists if you are using VirtualBox version 5.2.2 or above
Had issue today
Found old virtual Box version 5.0.28
Added IDE Drive instead of SATA
Install worked as design
Life is good again!

Hope this helps if anyone is still having this issue!

--Jay Sam :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :o :o :o
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