Raspberry Pi Running 3 OSes Simultaneously - ESXi Arm Edition

How to run ESXi Arm Edition on a Raspberry Pi so that you can run three versions of Linux at the same time. Three OSes simultaneously - Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS!!!

Note that the installation PDF guides can be download via the drop down menu on the left.




#garyexplains

[henrymach]

Virtual machines on a Pi... what a day we live in

[Flankymanga]

I am allways looking forward to hear the "Hallo my name is Garry Sims"... Garry how could you do that to us X_X. I want the intro back :)

[abhiramshibu]

Ill try it today itself.. I ran esxi home server earlier in my pc so this is very exciting for me...

[mehumanfett]

You should do a video with your super Raspberry Pi or Rock Pi build running ESXI and check the performance of the VMs.

Also this made my night, thanks for covering it so well as you always do.

[solanumtuberosa]

Would be more interesting to boot windows on arm, raspbian and android instead of three linux distros if possible.

[donporter]

Fantastic! Getting better every day.... (Beatles)

[saxxonian]

Now I got all this ideas coming for my Pi...:-D

[anders_nilsson]

I tried ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 and also experimented with USB passthrough, which seemed to work OK (virtual USB 3.0 controller passed through to a Ubuntu VM).

Now I just saw that the RPI Compute Module 4 has now arrived, and the IO board has... wait for it... a PCI Express x1 slot!

I wonder whether ESXi on ARM can be made to support PCI passthrough.

[MrMysticphantom]

YES YES come to the Dark side of ESXi and vmware +Gary Explains 😈😈

[baskett]

Hasn't Xen supported ARM for a while?

[IAmPattycakes]

For the power of a Pi, I feel like you really would just need docker. Full virtualization is pretty heavy, and although the pi 4 is pretty beefy it's no server chip.

[SL-xvio]

Gary, thank you for the great videos! Would be nice if you could do more videos with ESXi on ARM and go a bit more into details. For example: Is it possible to create clusters out of some Raspi hosts, using HA option, moving a bare-metal-installation of RaspiOS into virtualization, etc. Or about open alternatives to proprietary ESXi (Proxmox?). Keep up the good work!

[luigigaminglp]

Cant you just make a partition on the sdcard/usb drive/ssd?

[nrg]

Can you forward the graphics chip or other devices to one of the VMs like you can on x86?

[mohamadimrans]

thankyou for the great video, but i want ask can you run android os (like androidx86) run into that vm, ..? like host : ubuntu and the vm android.. sorry my bad engish, thankyou

[JNET_Reloaded]

I got 3cx already on raspian on an sd crd how can i convert that to vmware image or will it just work from backing the image up using win32disk imager app? ps I tried from inside converter (stand alone crap proovided by vmware) but that ssh failed from inside that converter crap, any ideas? i did try using sudo an that locked me out so had to restore from a backup ... ???

[MrMilanoLau]

Is it possible to run some old Windows (such as 7) or Mac OS on ESXi?

[thomassachinjohn]

Hey Gary,
Esxi not obtaining any IP address, I tried DHCP as well as static but doesn't goes through. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[stoino]

Does Win on Arm run better via ESXi as there might be some decend default driver / integrations?

[shangtsung]

A very nice trick, considering they could be put into different real VLANs on the same switch.