OT: There is a boot hack way around the Mac OS X on Apple host only, btw, that works for VirtualBox and some say will also work for ESXi 5.1, but I haven't tried it yet. I have Mountain Lion on Virtual Box on my Windows 7 Ult 64bit and it works amazingly well (iTunes plays music through it just fine).
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris McQuistion Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] creating a linux vm on esxi: bios or efi? I've only ever used BIOS for any virtual machine we've created. I assume the EFI option is there because some guest OS' might support EFI or even need it, in a few cases. For instance, VMware now supports running Mac OS X as a virtual machine. Now, this only works if you're host hardware is an Apple Mac Pro (something you won't find immediately obvious in their documentation, by the way.) The Mac OS X guest virtual machine requires EFI and not BIOS. Chris On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: Jumping off the next cliff. We have a shiny new server in house upon which esxi v5.1 is now installed. Creating guest installs from pxe boot. One configuration bit to twiddle is bios / efi boot scheme. Why or why not. The host server is an efi machine if that matters. Howard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:nlug-talk%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
