Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi: Installing VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 to run Linux virtual machines

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T. Fenton, P. KennedyRunning ESXi on a Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7465-1_8

8. Virtual Machines on ESXi

Thomas Fenton¹   and Patrick Kennedy²

(1)

Ridgefield, WA, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

 

While many readers may be looking forward to finding out how to create virtual machines (VMs) – which we will cover in this chapter – this may be the most unexciting chapter in this book, but for good reason: VMware has spent considerable time and effort to make creating VMs as easy as installing an OS on a physical machine. Yes, there are few nuances that you need to be aware of, and you will need to make sure that you get the correct ISOs for Arm processors, ...