Nested ESXi installing on HCI 5

RevobyteBO2 Lv1Posted 12 Jan 2024 17:50

good day, I wanted to try installing an ESXi on a virtual machine running in my HCI environment.

At the first test, it refused to boot because the CPU was "not supported".
I solved this enabling the "Use CPU from host" setting.

Now ESXi refuses to boot because it cannot find any network adapter. I tried changing the eth0 type to E1000 but it did not solve the issue.

Has someone managed to install ESXi some way?
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RevobyteBO2 Lv1Posted 17 Jan 2024 17:38
  
Last edited by RevobyteBO2 17 Jan 2024 17:43.

Good day everyone. I am trying to run ESXi 8u2 as a Virtual Machine.

As stated in the original post, I activated the setting "Use CPU from host". But the ESXi does not install because it says "no network adapter present" (see attachet screenshot nonet.jpg).

I switched the eth0 type from Realtek to E1000, with no effect. I don't have any E1000E or other available (see 1.jpg)
ESXi8u2 contains the community driver (previously Fling) for E1000 adapters.
my hci: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure 6.9.0 Build20230721

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