I recently wanted to use my 2 HP Compaq 8200 Elite Small Form Factor PCs for installing ESXi 5 on them. I burned the standard ESXi 5 ISO image from VMware on a USB. Below are the screen shots that walk you through the process of installing Windows Server 8 Beta on VMware Workstation 8. With the new Workstation 14 and Fusion 10 there is also a new requirement for your CPUs. This unfortunately has not been clearly communicated about by VMware. When. Wil van Antwerpen. Wil van Antwerpen is a software developer who loves to work on Open Source and dabble a bit with VMware products. He likes to help people out as. Vyatta Virtualization Iso Vmware Workstation 12' title='Vyatta Virtualization Iso Vmware Workstation 12' />20170802 Distribution Release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7. If you are running a Windows 2008 server, you may come across a service called the Windows Internal Database Sometimes referred to as SQL Server Embedded Edition. VMX unrestricted guest errors with Workstation 1. Fusion 1. 0With the new Workstation 1. Fusion 1. 0 there is also a new requirement for your CPUs. This unfortunately has not been clearly communicated about by VMware. When you try to start a VM and get the error This host does not support virtualizing real mode. The intel VMX unrestricted Guest feature is necessary to run this virtual machine on an Intel processor. Module CPUIDEarly power on failed. Failed to start the virtual machine. Youre one of those lucky ones with a CPU that is too old. So for example the i. School Days Hq Eng on this page. Mac Core i. 7 2. Inch Mid 2. Quad Core 2. 9. 3 GHz Intel Core i. I7 8. 70 Lynnfield processor and belongs to the Intel Nehalem family does not have the required CPU feature VMX unrestricted guest. This excellent post from VMTN user Bluefirestorm shines a light on it The documentation has an update on what processors it supports but youre a real star if you find that before buying the upgradeor. If you have an older processor then you actually can get VMs to run using a vmx hack, but it has been reported to be unusable slow. Legacy. CPU truefrom a post from Ulli here ESXi 6 VM unusable slow in WS 1. To quote Ulli freely, booting a ESXi 6 v. Sphere VM in Workstation 1. Kodak Dental Imaging Software Installation 6.1 here. Workstation 1. 4 beta. That really falls into the category unusable if you ask me. So my advice is to test before you buy You can use a 3. If it works out for you then buy and assign the license to the install and the time limit will be removed so no need to reinstallTry VMware Fusion or Fusion Pro. Workstation 1. 4 the link is Try VMware Workstation. Look for the Download Now link at the top right of your screen. Update 2. 01. 71. As a challenge last week I decided to see if I could build a little tool that can detect if your CPU has unrestricted guest capabilities. I succeeded on that, it requires you to boot your host from a custom CD yes those physical things For more details and the iso image, please see this post at vmtn https communities. If I decide to spent more time on that and make it nicer I will upload the iso down there.