Installed but not loading

[BrianFink]

I'm just getting started again with VMWare for the first time in a number of years. I just installed 3.5 ESXi on a 32bit machine that has a regular version of Server 2008 already installed on it. I ran the installation CD and the VMWare appeared to load but when it rebooted it went straight to the installed server. Do I need to install VMWare on an empty hard drive or is there a work around to turn the installed server into a VM machine?

Thanks,

Brian

[jkumhar75]

Since we already know that VMware ESX is Bare metal operating system.If I have understood correct then at the moment you have the dual operating system installed on your machine. Instead of this you can install the Vmware workstation and create a new VM and install Vmware ESXi into this VM.This is quite easy configuration and good to learn.

You can find a good installation document on www.xtravirt.com website.

Jay

MCSE,VCP 310,VCP 410

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[AndreTheGiant]

To install ESX/ESXi you have to boot with the DVD.

No host OS is required and note that you will lose your previous installation of other OSes.

Andre

[BrianFink]

I will work on this again this afternoon thanks for the help. I'll post something once I've gotten it working.

Thanks again,

Brian

[BrianFink]

I found a blank drive to work from and I have it working now. Thanks for the help. Brian