There is definitely a performance penalty for running ESXi as a guest OS. I don't think the hardware virtualization features of the CPU can be passed on to an ESXi guest, which also means no 64-bit guests inside the ESXi guest.
Suggest reading the notes on this blog: http://www.vcritical.com/2009/05/vmware-esx-4-can-even-virtualize-itself/ Regards, Mike On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 13:59, Aaron Peeler <aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Definitely doable. > > Also might be worth doing it within a ESXi server. Nested hypervisor - > possibly a bit better control on which networks are visible. > > With the connection methods in the next release, you could define > vsphere client as the connection method. > > Aaron P. > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu> > wrote: > > Hi, All > > > > Is it posible to add ESXi 4.1 image to VCL, so users can make reservation > > for ESXi 4.1 server? > > May be someone else already has it working…. May be there is separate > module > > for ESXi support? > > > > I have configured xCAT/VCL and I'm able to reload a blade with ESXi 4.1 > > using kickstart script via Manage Computers. > > But when a user makes reservation for ESXi 4.1 - it fails. So far it > fails > > for two reasons - no Public interface and cannot create user on ESXi > hosts. > > VCL is using Linux.pm module and ESXi doesn't support it. > > > > Thanks. > > -- > > Dmitri Chebotarov > > Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging > > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 > > Phone: (703) 993-6175 > > Fax: (703) 993-3404 > > > > > > -- > Aaron Peeler > Program Manager > Virtual Computing Lab > NC State University > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. >
