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Was curious if I could virtualize XenServer in vSphere as a VM. I know if it worked, performance would not be great. I just wanted to look at it and play with the interface. I don’t have a spare box.<\/p>\n
I plan on rolling out virtualization next year and pretty much decided on vSphere, but I thought since between the holidays it may be slow to check it out.<\/p>\n
Think it might work?<\/p>","upvoteCount":9,"answerCount":8,"datePublished":"2011-11-28T08:09:00.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Denis-Kelley","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Denis-Kelley"},"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"
I doubt it, I think it requires VT on the CPU, which it won’t find inside of a VM.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2011-11-28T10:01:06.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/just-for-giggles-and-yes-this-might-be-a-little-silly-but/114132/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"christophero","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/christophero"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Was curious if I could virtualize XenServer in vSphere as a VM. I know if it worked, performance would not be great. I just wanted to look at it and play with the interface. I don’t have a spare box.<\/p>\n
I plan on rolling out virtualization next year and pretty much decided on vSphere, but I thought since between the holidays it may be slow to check it out.<\/p>\n
Think it might work?<\/p>","upvoteCount":9,"datePublished":"2011-11-28T08:09:00.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/just-for-giggles-and-yes-this-might-be-a-little-silly-but/114132/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Denis-Kelley","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Denis-Kelley"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
My guess is that you are right, but gonna attempt since I have a bit of spare time.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2011-11-28T10:16:37.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/just-for-giggles-and-yes-this-might-be-a-little-silly-but/114132/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Denis-Kelley","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Denis-Kelley"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Funny thing is that it installed. Playing to see if I can add some storage and then install XP. I played with some settings, but thoroughly expect it to fail.<\/p>\n
I got farther than I thought. I really just wanted to see the console interface and how menus and whatnot looked like.<\/p>\n
I drop the results after playing awhile.<\/p>\n
Again, thanks for replying. Didn’t think anyone had a real world answer, but I guess everyone decided to stay away from the mad scientist. ![\":slight_smile:\"](\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12\" "\\":slight_smile:\\"")
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Hyper-V will run on ESXi5 (Not the other way around though).<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2011-11-28T14:50:49.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/just-for-giggles-and-yes-this-might-be-a-little-silly-but/114132/5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"StorageNinja","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/StorageNinja"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
should all be good, i’ve managed to run ESXi (4 and 5) under vmplayer, plus a management server running vsphere all on a win 7 pc with 4G RAM.<\/p>\n
Most things are possible when just playing around and speed isn’t an issue.<\/p>\n
also managed to connect a virtual FreeNAS server to the above environment on the same just for the fun of it ![\":wink:\"](\"https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12\" "\\":wink:\\"")
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Very cool, albeit no very productive exercise. XenServer runs fine, but ChristopherO hit it on the nail. Everything works, but can’t run Windows VM due to passthru of VT.<\/p>\n
This was all just an exercise to play with the interface of XenCenter. Was fun though. I needed storage, so worked and created NFS on a Win2K8 VM to create the XP VM, which led to the error, but was expecting it.<\/p>\n
I’m glad I did the exercise though. I think I like working with vSphere over XenServer.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2011-11-29T06:44:24.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/just-for-giggles-and-yes-this-might-be-a-little-silly-but/114132/7","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Denis-Kelley","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Denis-Kelley"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
