Hi everybody,
I’m training for esxi and I'm facing a problem when I create a vm.
The vm is super slow, even before entering the BIOS, it takes 10 minutes.
I have a good pc on which I run a lab (installed VmWare workstation, then installation of esxi 6.5).
I have a MSI motherboard Z77-G43 with an INTEL I7 3770K @ 3.4 GHz
It is not referenced in the Compatibility Guide from VMWare but many users are using not referenced CPU and motherboards, and it works fine.
I don’t want to sell my MB, CPU and RAM to buy a mini server just for learning…
In the BIOS, the intel-VT is enabled, but no option for VT-D.
The esxi runs without problem, the vCpu's are displayed, but the created vm's are very slow, so much that I can not install them. (it opens the BIOS in slow motion, and the change of menu takes 2 minutes ...)
Esxtop shows More than 100´% CPU usage for the VM, but it’s crazy because it happens at launch, before seeing the VMWARE logo and the BIOS menu…
When I type “e” I expand the process and saw vmx-vcpu-0 till –4 (for the 4 cores I allocated for the vm) but only the first core (vcpu-0) is working at more than 100%, the other are waiting and do nothing.
So even a vpcu cannot handle the vm startup, crazy.
I removed my graphics card (thinking there was an incompatibility) let the job to my integrated display chip, but it didn't work better.
I'm pretty sure esxi and vm's could work on my pc as I made a test with a I5 laptop and it worked, the Windows 2012 vm installed correctly.
Can some one please help?
Many thanks,