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(As an aside, you can run ESXi inside a Workstation virtual machine. I'm not saying you cannot use ESX(i) for your TV tuners, but you must get past the idea that it can be "all-in-one". But the fact that you must use a second machine for ESX(i) means that you may as well just use the PCI TV tuners non-virtualized on a separate machine. Your statement that you want to dual-boot infers that you do not want a second machine. So if you're going to continue to try to use ESX(i) for your PCI TV tuner cards, ESX(i) must be on the physical host, which means you need a second machine. You must use a separate machine to manage the ESX(i) host. ESX(i) cannot be run in a completely standalone environment. It is targeted for a "server" environment where the ESX(i) host is separate room from the "management" workstation. Thus you still need a separate machine regardless of whether the vSphere client is running on the ESX(i) host or not.īottom line: ESX(i) is NOT a desktop OS. Even if you were to "preconfigure" a virtual machine on the ESX(i) host to run the vSphere client, you still can't see the Windows desktop to do anything with the vSphere client except by using another machine to remote into the virtual machine. Since you can't get to the console of any virtual machine (a.k.a.: Windows desktop) to run the vSphere client, this means the vSphere client must be on a machine separate from the ESX(i) host.
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(There is an unsupported on for troubleshooting, but we won't get into that right now.) You must use the vSphere client, which must run on a Windows machine. You will not be able to access the console of any virtual machine from the ESX(i) host. I'm still thinking, how to install ESXi and Win7 64-bit on the same PC to be able to switch btw them at will? Probably the wrong Hypervisor for the job. Is it possible instead to access one ESXi VM from another VM running both on the same PC? Since ESXi is supplied with some VMs pre-configured, one of these may possibly be used to access and further configure another? Or its not even possible to launch an ESXi VM from the same PC to begin with? You mentioned that another PC must be used to access ESXi VM Console.
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