I hear you like virtualization?

[xor]

This is what I did today because we didn't have a powerful or recent enough machine to run VMWare ESXi Server 5.0.0.


I was quite happy, because for one, I managed to install ESXi to live boot and run from a USB drive (unsupported), but I also managed to get it to run without issue inside a VirtualBox environment. Another thing which supposedly shouldn't work.


Here was the setup.

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Physical Machine (Windows 7)
 --------------------------------------------------
|  Virtual Box with single guest                   |
|  using live mounted physical volumes             |
|  ----------------------------------------------  |
| |  VMWare ESXi 5.0.0                           | | 
| |  ------------------------------------------  | |
| | |    Comp1     Comp2     Comp3     Comp4   | | |
| | |   -------   -------   -------   -------  | | |
| | |  |       | |       | |       | |       | | | |
| | |  |       | |       | |       | |       | | | | 
| | |   -------   -------   -------   -------  | | |
| |  ------------------------------------------  | |
|  ----------------------------------------------  |
 --------------------------------------------------

[Live Wire]

Interesting. Didn't think that was supposed to work like that. Congratulations on breaking the system!