I installed VMWare Server 2 in a Centos 5.2 virtual machine which runs in a VMWare ESXi Server. When I try to start, via browser, a VM I created in VMWare Server, it gives me the following message: "You may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine.". Is there a way to put the VM to work?
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- Starting a land-war in Asia
- Inventing the hoola-hoop
- Trying to VM inside a VM
All bad ideas
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+1 for the land-war in Asia. But you forgot: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line". :)– osij2isDec 2, 2009 at 17:30
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There is nothing wrong with starting a VM inside a VM, in fact, VMware now directly supports this feature.– BrennanApr 16, 2010 at 18:34
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2Just because something works and is supported does not make it a good idea, have you tried it? did it work in a way you'd be happy to support in production? well I, and a number of other SF'er and others outside SF have - and we agree that it's a bad idea.– Chopper3Apr 16, 2010 at 19:19
You may want to see this. It may not work with VMware Server, but if it works with ESX/ESXi, it probably will.
Why not use VMware Converter (free standalone) to convert the VM to ESX format and save yourself some machine power by not doing VM-inside-VM?
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Because my concern is not about weight on the server, but in the clients, which are old desktops with serious processment restrictions, unable to run the heavy-load VMWare ESXi client (vSphere), but perfectly able to run the VMWare Server 2 browser client. But instead of going on trying this experimental "nested virtualizaion", I'm thinking about simply substitute VMWare ESXi by VMWare Server.– CHUCODec 3, 2009 at 18:52
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In this case you may want to look at VMware View. Kinda like Terminal Services, but with VMs. Feb 16, 2010 at 0:30
VMware Workstation now supports this feature, you can run ESXi via Workstation.