Running nested VMware ESXi 7.0 host under KVM hypervisor

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Prerequisites: hardware support for VT-x enabled nested virtualization for KVM Use below command to create KVM virtual machine containing VMware ESXi: virt-install --virt-type=kvm --name=vmware-esxi7 \ --ram 4096 --vcpus=4 \ --virt-type=kvm --hvm \ --cdrom /home/pawel/ISO/VMware/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U3d-19482537.x86_64.iso \ --network network:default,model=vmxnet3 \ --graphics vnc --video qxl \ --disk pool=default,size=32,sparse=true,bus=sata,format=qcow2 \ --boot cdrom,hd --noautoconsole --force \ --cpu host-passthrough --os-variant linux2020… Continue reading Running nested VMware ESXi 7.0 host under KVM hypervisor