vmware ESXi in KVM

[Nicholas Hardiman]

I made a couple machines like this last year. Why on earth did I add
"os-variant=fedora10"? Can't remember.

I had issues mixing libvirt and VMware. I ran into some odd SSL errors, and
the machines couldn't see each other. I didn't get to the bottom of those
problems.

HOST=esxi7-1
OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2
DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2
INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso
IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:10
IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:11

HOST=esxi7-2
OS_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST.qcow2
DATASTORE_DISK=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$HOST-datastore.qcow2
INSTALL_ISO=/var/lib/libvirt/images/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2-17630552.x86_64.iso
IF1_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:12
IF2_MAC=52:54:00:00:00:13

virt-install \
  --name="$HOST" \
  --vcpus=8 \
  --ram=20480 \
  --cpu host-passthrough  \
  --disk path=$OS_DISK,size=20,bus=sata \
  --disk path=$DATASTORE_DISK,size=200,bus=sata \
  --os-type linux \
  --os-variant=fedora10 \
  --network network=pubbr0,mac=$IF1_MAC,model=e1000e   \
  --network network=privbr0,mac=$IF2_MAC,model=e1000e   \
  --boot uefi,menu=on,cdrom,hd \
  --graphics vnc \
  --video qxl \
  --cdrom $INSTALL_ISO \
  --noautoconsole \
  --features kvm_hidden=on \
  --machine q35


On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:58 AM Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:45:37PM +0200, Gunnar wrote:
> >I am trying to install esxi7 inside a KVM machine
> >
> >    virt-install --name=esxi7 \
> >    --vcpus=2 \
> >    --memory=4096 \
> >
> --cdrom=/home/username/isos/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U2a-17867351.x86_64.iso
> >    \
> >    --disk size=33 \
> >    --os-variant=unknown
> >
> >the installation process starts but does not get fails with a "No
> >network adapters" error. This does not happen with other VM's.
> >What do I have to add to above command in order to attach the default
> >network adapter to the machine?
> >
>
> First look if the machine has any network interface.  If it does, the
> guest OS probably does not support the model, so you can change that.
> If it does not have one, then you probably want to use '--network
> network=default' in your virt-install command and you can always look
> that up in the man page as well (e.g. man virt-install).
>
> >or is there any other trick I have to be aware of when it comes to
> >installing ESXi
> >
>
> No idea as I have never installed anything like that.
>
> >thx ... Gunnar
>
> Hope that helped,
> Martin
>
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