Can only boot 1 ESX VM in Workstation 6 Build 45731

[dilpz]

Hi guys,

I created 2 VMs within workstation 6 on my PC and installed ESX 3.02 on them so I could create myself a test environment. I edited the VMX files as per the instructions on the xtravirt website for esx in a box and ESX installed great. The only problem is, I can only boot 1 ESX VM at a time. If I try to boot the other, the VMK will fail to load giving a 0xbad001f error. This happens on either of the VMs if the other is on. Both VMs have been created in ESX compatibility mode and have their storage on my local hard disk. My host PC has an Intel Core2Duo processor, 4GB RAM and VT is turned on. The host OS for workstation is Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition

Has anyone else ever had this issue and found a workaround? I've posted both VMX files just in case Ive made any mistakes and someone might be able to spot something. Please help!

Thanks

[continuum]

guestOS = "redhat"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "esx"

That entries don't make sense - set guestOS to other and the other one to hosted.

Post a vmware.log from the second booted ESX - the one that fails - after correcting the vmx.

Does it work better if you only use one CPU per VM ?

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:

[oreeh]

guestOS = "redhat"

This probably is from the xtravirt paper.

[continuum]

Yep - once something stupid was posted on xtravirt the whole world repeats it

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description of vmx-parameters:

VMware-liveCD:

[dilpz]

Hi Guys,

Just tried to switch the vms to 1cpu and they both work! hmm... thats a

strange problem, why dont they like dual CPU's? Im wondering if theres some

sort of contention issue going on?

[oreeh]

Your host only has two cores.

Running vSMP VMs on a dual core host is problematic at best.

Running two of them won't / can't work.