http://mytricks.in/2012/04/guide-how-to-install-windows-8-on-vmware-esxi-5-0.html

Cheers!!!

Thanks for a great article.

However, your title suggests you have a solution to run win8 on esxi 5 or 4.1 and even though you DID find a solution – I read through the whole article to find out at the end this is not what I was looking for! ;/

Jokingly I told her to find an open source project to gain some experiance with and if she could find an open source SQA project that would be funny….

…well here you are.

If you have any “getting started” documentation that would be helpful. Also if you wouldn’t mind a short blog post relating your framework components equivance to Quality Center, QTP & LoadRunner that would be helpful. Just a simple correlation would be great.

Regards,
Bill & Chris

P.S. Perhaps web2py would be a good local web-server for future tutorials?

Thanks

Sorry if the post is not clear enough, I’m better to write french than english.

What I describe is,, in fact, it’s not possible to put directly a VM with “windows 8″ on vsphere 4.1 or 5.0, at this time.

The only way I’ve found, is to create a VM on your vcenter (vsphere 4.1 or 5, no matters), install “windows 7″ on this VM.
Then install vmware “workstation 8″ on this “VM windows 7″. With this “Workstation 8″, you can create a VM where you will then be able to install “Windows 8″.

You will then have :

PHYSICAL SERVER (ESX(i) 4.1/5.0)
|
—-> vcenter (4.1/5.0)
|
—–> Virtual Machine (Windows 7)
|
—–> Workstation 8
|
—-> Virtual Machine (Windows

I know it’s “tricky”.
But with the proper network configuration, this “Windows 8″ VM will be seen as others on the network, and it will run on your ESX/ESXi physical server (with what I call the “windows 7″ encapsulation).

Hope this helps.

Olivier

I installed Windows 8 32bit & 64bit on VMware workstation 8 & it works no issues at all.. then converted working windows 8 VM via VMware vCenter Converter to ESXi 5 but no luck (while booting it gives HAL error as described by you)… I did not understand what I miss.. Could you please explain what you did in short..

Thanks in advance..

I did not understand below steps…

Step 9: A good night’s sleep. Sleep on it… I finally combined what worked:

- install «Windows 8» in a VM under “Workstation 8″.

- install “Workstation 8″ in a VM under vSphere 5.

Yes, it’s so “simple” than this. In vSphere 5, first build (or reuse) a “Windows 7 32b or 64b” VM. However, change the settings for:

- Increase the memory to 4096 MB

- Allocate significant resources for memory and CPU (as much as you can allow your ESXi)

- Assign 2 CPUs

- Have at least 20 GB of free (resize disk if necessary)

Turn on your VM, and reboot again if needed to apply the new parameters. Now, follow previous steps 3, 4 and 5 on your “windows 7″ VM. Install a version of Windows 8 32-bit, you may not be able to deploy 64-bit depending on the characteristics of your physical servers.

Cheers!