To enable the virtualization support, navigate to your BIOS settings and Enable the Intel-VD (Intel VT-x) or the AMD VT technology/feature.Ģ. To check if your system supports virtualization use the CPUID CPU-Z utility. Hardware Requirements to install ESXi VSphere Hypervisor on VirtualBox:ĬPU:The host machine must have at least two CPU cores and the CPU must support hardware virtualization features (Intel VT-x or AMD RVI). So, if you own an Intel CPU, it's better to install ESXi on the VMware player. (you will receive the error 'This host does not support Intel VT-x.' if you try to start the VM machine.). This is happens, because the VirtualBox doesn't support nested virtualization for Intel CPUs. Important:Keep in mind, that if you own an Intel CPU, you will not be able to start a new VM machine from the VM ESXi host, running on VirtualBox.

The purpose of installing ESXi on VirtualBox, is only for testing and experiment with the vSphere features and not production reasons.

This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions to install VMware ESXi vSphere Hypervisor 6.7 on a VirtualBox host.

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