Install Windows 8/ Windows Server 2012 RC/RTM on VMware ESXi 5.0 without installing VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch ESXi500-201112001 (2007680)
I have tested Windows 8/ Windows Server 2012 RC/RTM VM on VMware ESXi 5.0 (623860), Follow the below step to create Virtual Machine;
1. Create New Virtual Machine with Guest OS type Select Windows 8 (64-bit) or Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit)
2. After creation of Virtual machine access ESXi host with SSH (Putty) and go to the VM configuration path “vi /vmfs/volume/<DataStore Name>/<VM Folder NAme>/<VM_Name.vmx> and add the below line in Windows 2012 Virtual Machine configuration file (Windows 2012.vmx)
firmware = “bios”
vmGenCounter.enable = “False”
unity.wasCapable = “FALSE”
Enabling Hyper-V on Windows 2012 server open this link Windows 8 with Hyper-V
