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Yesterday it was time for downloading vmware ESX4 and vSphere. So Immediately I have installed ESX 4 on Workstation 6.5.2 build-156735. It is verry easy to install esx4 on workstation and there are no special settings necessary. Just make sure the VM you make for this has at least 2 Gb RAM. It is possible to do this with less, but I do not discuss this here. The steps which I explain below will not rule out that it works with other settings

1. The first Thing is to startup Workstation and make a Virtual machine.
   • Click File >> New >> Virtual Machine
   • Use "Custom (advanced)" and click next
   • Make sure it's compatable with Workstation 6.5
   • Choose your ISO or Installer Disc and click next
   • Check "Other" by Guest operating system and "Other 64-bit" by version. Click next
   • Choose your Virtual Machine name and it's location en click next
   • I use two processors and give it 2048 MB of RAM
   • Network connection "Bridged"
   • Check "LSI Logic" by SCSI Adapter and click next
   • Create a new disk
   • Virtual Disk type will be "SCSI" and click next
   • I used 15 Gb of Disk capacity. Click next, next finished.
2. The second is starting you'r Virtual Machine.
   
   • You will see the setup as show below. I installed in in Graphical mode.
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   • Click Next 
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   • Leave it to default and click Next
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   • After loading it's Drivers click Next
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   • I Guess you do not have a serial number, so choose to add a serial number later. This give you time to play for 60 days
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   • Leave it to default and click Next
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   • You can choose for DHCP but I recommend choosing to add your network settings here.
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   • Make your life simple and keep it default. Default is a standard setup.
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   • Click Next
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   • Choose your Time zone. Caught, the mine is Europe
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   • The best is to choose a NTP server. But in this case I choose manually. It is only for testing.
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   • Don't forget to add your root password. Click Next.
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   • And Hit it!
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   • So that wasn't hard.
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   • Click Finished and you'r ready!

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written by daived sharl, June 10, 2009

when i try to power on this VM it gives me "this version of the ESX requires a CPU capable of 64-bit operation" but my windows machine is support 64-bit so what is that error
thanks in advance

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written by Roy, June 10, 2009

Probably you need to turn VT technology on your CPU in the BIOS. Just Enable it and see what it does.

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written by Roy, November 07, 2009

There is a way to screw up the 2 Gb memory on Duncan's site http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2...of-memory/

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