That's fine if you're going to use some external storage, but it's probably smart to enlarge it a bit, it'll be sparse anyway. Qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 Nested_ESXi6.x_Appliance_Template_v5-disk2.vmdk hdb.qcow2Īs mentioned, disk 2 is all of 4GB large. Qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 Nested_ESXi6.x_Appliance_Template_v5-disk1.vmdk hda.qcow2 QEMU doesn't handle vmdk files, so you need to convert them to qcow2 format.
I'll assume you've managed to copy disk1 and disk2 from the ESXi6.0 OVA to /tmp. Open the OVA with your favorite archiving program, extract disk 1 and 2, and copy them to your EVE-NG virtual machine. To get an image that's compatible with EVE-NG, you need to take the following steps: 1. You can grab images for ESXi5.5, ESXi6.0 and ESXi6.5 straight from .Īll these images are. It's much easier to start with the Nested ESXi images by William Lam, who has done most of the work for us. Of course it's possible to create your own QEMU image by installing from an official ESXi installation CD, but that's a lot of work. So let's give it a shot! Getting ESXi imagesįirst stop is acquiring some images for ESXi. However, if you're willing to tinker a bit, it is possible to run ESXi nodes in EVE-NG. If you're like me and are curious enough to check EVE-NG under the hood, you might have noticed that there is a template for VMware ESXi, but it's not listed as supported and is in fact hidden by default.
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