Logger box freezing at boot

[tom-dell]

• Operating System Version: Ubuntu 16.04 VM (18 GB of RAM, 6vCPUs 500GB HDD) on ESXi 6.0.0
• Provider (VirtualBox/VMWare): Virtual Box 5.2.8 (also tried 5.1)
• Vagrant Version: 2.0.1
• Packer Version: 1.2.1
• Is the issue reproducible or intermittent? reproducable

Description of the issue:

Everytime I run 'sudo vagrant up' it begins to boot the logger host, however it says 'VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system'.
I click okay, and open the settings to enable hardware acceleration in the VM settings, however they are blanked out because the VM is currently running, when I shut it down it doesn't show up in the virtualbox menu (where I would normally enable acceleration when it's off).
If I leave it run, it just sits at a blank screen with a _ flashing, I've left it for hours.

I have tried changing the Virtual box version, purging the logger box and redownloading it (whcih different versions of VB install), and a bunch of other tweeks. There isn't a option to enable acceleration in the BIOS of the Ubuntu VM (on ESXi).

[clong]

Hey @tom-dell,

I don't believe this is an issue with the DetectionLab code. You are trying to build a series of VMs (DetectionLab) inside of an existing VM (your Ubuntu VM). This is entirely possible if the Ubuntu VM has VT-X hardware acceleration enabled. I know it works because an Ubuntu VM on ESXI is how I debug my builds :)

However, I don't know if VT-X can be enabled after the VM has been created. I followed this guide to enable VT-X on my ESXI VM (Under the "Enabling VHV" section): https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/08/how-to-enable-nested-esxi-other.html

Hope this helps!

[clong]

Hey @tom-dell, I'm going to close this out for the reasons listed above, but feel free to reach out if you continue to have problems getting VT-X working with ESXI.