Problems downloading ESXi to VirtualBox

[Mark Seefried]

All,

I'm trying to create a VMware Virtual Environment and can't seem to get vagrant up to install the ESXi Vm's. Here's a copy of my vagrantfile. I need my ESXi hosts to be 6.7 so i can install NSX-T to overlay. This puts me in the situation of only being able to use VMware's Box files

https://app.vagrantup.com/vmware/boxes/esxi/versions/6.7.0-8169922

# Add ESXi Host VM's to VirtualBox

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "vmware/esxi"
  config.vm.box_version = "6.7.0-8169922"


 
  config.vm.define :first do |config|
      config.vm.host_name = "host1.unixcloudfusion.in"
      config.vm.network "private_network", ip:"192.168.33.110"
      config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "3072"]
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "3"]
      end
  end

  config.vm.define :second do |config|
      config.vm.host_name = "host2.unixcloudfusion.in"
      config.vm.network "private_network", ip:"192.168.33.111"
      config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "3072"]
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "3"]
      end
  end

  config.vm.define :third do |config|
      config.vm.host_name = "host3.unixcloudfusion.in"
      config.vm.network "private_network", ip:"192.168.33.112"
      config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "3072"]
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "3"]
      end
  end

  config.vm.define :forth do |config|
      config.vm.host_name = "host4.unixcloudfusion.in"
      config.vm.network "private_network", ip:"192.168.33.113"
      config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "3072"]
          vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "3"]
      end
  end
end

[Dennis Chang]

You'll notice that there's only a single provider for the box you specified,

https://app.vagrantup.com/vmware/boxes/esxi/versions/6.7.0-8169922

the provider is vmware_desktop. Therefore, trying to spin up the box using Virtualbox will fail.

You need VMware Desktop in order to run this box.

[Mark Seefried]

Dennis,

Thank you for catching that, it was a late night. I saw that this morning and downloaded VMware Workstation 15. I then modified the vagrantinit file to vmware_workstation. My prob,em is that it's picking up VirtualBox before it sees the vagrantinit file

Looking forward to any assistance you can provide

Mark

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

vagrant to be able to create vmware vms, need a plugin

when plugin is installed the default provider will be virtualbox

https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/index.html

alvaro

[Mark Seefried]

alaro,

Thank you for the reply. I had read that today as well. Not sure the cost for licensing it though as its for my personal lab?

Mark

[Aaron Kulbe]

$79

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[Jim McGinness]

Might be worth investigating the plugin at https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi

I don't know about getting it working in a nested situation, such as the one you are proposing, but I've had some degree of success deploying boxes with it to bare-metal-installed ESXi. No license required.