Friday, 11 October 2013

Installing 2012 Server on ESXI 4.1

Solution to install Windows 2012 Server on the top of ESXi 4.1


Generally you will get above error, if you try to install windows 2012 Server on the top of ESXi 4.1

Solution as below.

Create a  new VM over the vSphere Client.
As “Guest Operating System” i used Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
If you finished the creation of the VM download the follwing bios file and upload it to your ESXi datastore
Move the bios file to the folder of the new VM
Now open the .vmx file of the new VM and add the follwing lines

bios440.filename = "bios.440.rom"
mce.enable = TRUE
cpuid.hypervisor.v0 = FALSE
vmGenCounter.enable = FALSE

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