topic simulator on esx 5.5 in Simulator Discussions

simulator on esx 5.5

RP — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:26:34 GMT

Is there a version of the simulator that will run on esxi 5.5?

IHAC that wants to run it on 5.5

shatfield — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:43:35 GMT

It runs on 5.5.

The problem they will have is that one of the VMDKs is in 2gb sparse format, which is not supported on an out of the box 5.5 install.

A few ways to fix that include

-load the multiextent module from the esx cli

-convert the vmdk to either thin or thick from the esx cli

-use vmware converter to import the vm

-convert it to an OVF and import the ovf

Those are approximately in ascending order of difficulty

MIKEMWALK — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:24:42 GMT

The following vmware knowledge base should help

Paiih — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:29:52 GMT

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