Go to this page, scroll down the “Standard” version and click on “VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3b” and then download the “VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXI ISO) Image (Includes VMware Tools)”. The VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi is a commercial product, but when you create an account you can download a 60 day trial. # want Y to be returnedĬat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrsĬat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/enable_apicvĬat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nestedĬat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/ept Download vSphere Hypervisor Reboot the host, then login and run the following commands. Then in order to workaround an issue with Ubuntu, force the value for ignore_msrs echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs Options kvm_intel nested=1 enable_apicv=0 ept=1 options kvm ignore_msrs=1 report_ignored_msrs=0 In the file “/etc/modprobe.d/nf”, set the following lines. In addition to enabling VT-x at the BIOS level, you will also need to configure it at the Ubuntu OS level.
We cannot created a nested virtualization solution without this support. Each BIOS is different but look for “Virtualization Technology” or “VT-x”. If you do not have this enabled, reboot your machine and press the special function key (F1|F2|F10|DEL|ESC|alt-S) that takes you into the BIOS. LXC: Checking if device /sys/fs/fuse/connections exists : PASSĪnd lastly, you should see a number greater than 0 coming back from cpuinfo. LXC: Checking for cgroup 'blkio' controller support : PASS LXC: Checking for cgroup 'freezer' controller support : PASS LXC: Checking for cgroup 'devices' controller support : PASS LXC: Checking for cgroup 'memory' controller support : PASS LXC: Checking for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support : PASS
LXC: Checking for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support : PASS LXC: Checking for cgroup 'cpu' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for secure guest support : WARN (Unknown if this platform has Secure Guest support) QEMU: Checking if IOMMU is enabled by kernel : PASS QEMU: Checking for device assignment IOMMU support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'blkio' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'devices' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'memory' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking for cgroup 'cpu' controller support : PASS QEMU: Checking if device /dev/net/tun exists : PASS QEMU: Checking if device /dev/vhost-net exists : PASS QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm is accessible : PASS QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm exists : PASS QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS Many computers have it disabled by default in the BIOS. You need to make sure your CPU is capable of VT-x (virtualization acceleration), and then that your BIOS has VT-x enabled. I am assuming you are running Ubuntu and have already installed and smoke tested KVM as described in my previous article.
I will then provide instructions for how to create a KVM virtual machine that runs VMware ESXi, and then smoke test by deploying a guest OS on top of ESXi. In this article, I’ll be using a bare metal server running Ubuntu and KVM as a type 1 hypervisor. Luckily, if you need to test something specific to VMware you can always run ESXi nested inside a KVM virtual machine. If you are running KVM on an Ubuntu server, you already have an excellent Type 1 virtualization engine.