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Booting the ESXi 3.5 install ISO crashes the virtualbox client window (and the VM i guess). PAE is required to run, APIC settings has no effect, I don't have Intel V/T, just a cheap Core Duo.



00:00:01.456 Changing the VM state from 'CREATED' to 'RUNNING'.
00:00:01.462 Guest Log: BIOS: VirtualBox 3.0.2
00:00:01.462 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:01.493 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x00 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:01.493 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:00:01.495 Guest Log: BIOS: ata0-0: PCHS=16383/16/63 LCHS=1024/255/63
00:00:01.495 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=1 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xec (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:01.495 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:00:01.496 Guest Log: BIOS: ata0-1: PCHS=9305/16/63 LCHS=583/255/63
00:00:01.496 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0x00 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:01.496 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: finished processing RESET
00:00:01.497 PIT: mode=2 count=0x48d3 (18643) - 64.00 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:01.506 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=06a50000 w=640 h=480 bpp=32 cbLine=0xA00
00:00:03.097 Guest Log: Key pressed: 0086
00:00:03.103 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:00:03.598 Guest Log: Key pressed: 002e
00:00:03.604 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:03.607 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:01:10.940
00:01:10.940 !!Assertion Failed!!
00:01:10.940 Expression: <NULL>
00:01:10.940 Location : C:\vbox\branch\win-3.0\src\VBox\VMM\SELM.cpp(890) SELMR3UpdateFromCPUM
00:01:10.940 Couldn't read GDT at 00000000c0077000, rc=VERR_PGM_INVALID_GC_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS!

I'm curious if it is possible to run VMWare software inside Virtualbox, but I don't know if it's impossible.

Short answer no.
Long answer Sun does not support this.

Thank you for the quick reply, I guess I can only test this kind of exotic kernel behavior on the bare hardware.