hello,
I am attempting to assemble a cheap vm box for my amusement and learning. if everything works, it may become the pfsense / xpenology nas / vpn gateway box at my parents house...
I purchased an Asrock n3150m matx board for $100 cdn (ASRock > N3150M
basically a lower clocked pentium n3700. It was in stock, while the n3700 variant was not. For $20 more I would have taken the n3700 variant if available.
this is the new braswell series of 14nm el'cheapo atoms chips: ARK | Intel® Celeron® Processor N3150 (2M Cache, up to 2.08 GHz)
I got the matx version versus itx due to the extra pcie slots; I have some spare intel dual lan pcie cards, sil3124 sata cards,etc. Had some spare ddr3, a spare kingston 128gb ssd, and a 350w psu. bought a new case. everything is working. updated to the latest 1.10 bios.
the system is up and running. I cannot get hyper v server 2012 r2 to install as it gives me a hypervisor error upon reboot and does not finish the install. Tried server 2012 r2, which works until I install the hyper-v add-on, and the same issue. hyper v server 2016 preview 3 works flawlessly.
I could not get exsi 5.5u2 or 6.0 with u1 update to work. Both hang at " Relocating modules and starting up the kernel". I attempted to patch version 6 with the sata drivers using one of the tools I found online and also with powercli - no dice.
I tried creating custom images as per: How to fix ESXi on Intel NUC malformed Manufacturer and Model | Virten.net and ESXi 6.0 Image for Intel NUC | Virten.net
Recall, this cpu os basically the same thing as the braswell nuc. I have disabled parallel port and serial ports, changed onboard video ram settings, disabled the on-board realtek lan, etc. and no dice. I am at my wits end.
I installed windows 10 and installed vmware workstation 12, and it works perfectly. I would prefer to avoid this option. Any ideas how I could get esxi 6 to work on this?
