I thought i solved this some time ago but…
When powering on VM inside virtualized esxi 4.1 on esxi4.1 host i got an error
You may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine
I thought 2-3 weeks ago i had to deal with this issue but i forgot to test it 😉 and assumed that it will work… don’t ask.
What i did is that i put option
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = “TRUE” in vmx.
Well , it’s not enough , now i had also to add
guestOS = “vmkernel”
monitor_control.vt32 = “TRUE”
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = “TRUE”
When updating the vmx, you will have the guestOS option already set up, so delete it first, because esxi vm will not start and will say that it already has a variable guestos defined.
After rebooting esxi vm, it’s albe to start other vms inside.