ESX 3.5 on WS6.5

yeah yeah i know this is not new but i wanted to bring the final how-to´s to my archive so here we go (thanks to Ulli at sanbarow for providing the infos):


In WS 6.0.blah you can run ESX 3.0.blah if your host has Intel VT or AMD SVM and your vmx file has some items set right....
Intel:
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"
monitor_control.vt32 = "true"

AMD:
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"
monitor_control.enable_svm= TRUE


Since build 91182 you can run ESX 3.5 or ESX 3.5i - if your host has Intel VT or AMD SVM and your vmx file has some items set right....

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"

And yes...if WS6.5 sets monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"
back to "software" then you are out of luck because your CPU doesn´t have the ability mentioned above.

Here comes the link to the megathread at vmware communities:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/969817