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February 10th, 2008 19:00
SC1430 / ESX 64-bit guest support
I recently got a SC1430 with dual E5310 procs but it seems like ESX 3.5 doesn't recognize Intel VT support. Granted, this server is not on VMware's HCL, but I'm still hoping somebody may have some advice. VT support is enabled in the BIOS, booting off a CPUID disk shows VT support enabled for all procs, and CentOS 5 64-bit will install without problems. /proc/cpuinfo under ESX doesn't show vmx support though. I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what may be going on. Anybody have any advice?
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February 11th, 2008 12:00
chiefmojo
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February 11th, 2008 12:00
hocky98
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April 9th, 2008 17:00
Chiefmojo,
Have you found any resolution to this? Since your reply to my thread and my numerous problems using VMware server, VirtualBox, Xen, I think I need to try ESX.. but because of your findings, I havent tried ESX.
chiefmojo
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April 9th, 2008 18:00
Yes! I apologise for not getting the resolution up before now. It's been remarkably busy for me lately and I just never looped back around to this :(
Basically, if you don't have VT support turned on in the BIOS before you install ESX you have to do a full reinstall. Make sure you wipe all the partitions, with the exception of any vmfs partitions which can stay. If you don't format the partitions ESX will maintain some of the pre-existing configuration and the presence of VT is one of the things that is inherited. I *thought* I had done a clean wipe at one point but I must have been mistaken. When I did finally do clean reinstall everything worked as expected.
Hope it works for you -- I wouldn't expect you to have any problems but if you do let me know and I'll see what I can do.
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April 9th, 2008 21:00