I don't think you can Dual boot ESXi with anything else. It never prompts for any partitioning, therefore utilizes the entire drive iirc. You could TRY to virtualize the OS, but I know Macs can be particular with hardware so it may not work on the virtual hardware VMWare presents. It would be kind of a pain to convert the Mac to a VM in your scenario as well, but with another machine and a spare hard drive you could do so. I personally wouldn't waste a copy of the OS if you don't have to.
Never know when you might want a copy to play around with. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if you got the iMac for very cheap, it's too old to run ESXi. It's supported on the newest gen iMac, and unsupported but functions on recent Mac Mini models, but won't work on anything much older. What exact model is it? (Go to Apple >About This Mac, then click More Info, then click System Report. Driver Modem Bolt E5372s. Look for what it says next to Model Identifier -- It'll say something like iMac5,1) As for dual boot -- highly unlikely.
As da Beast said, a Type 1 Hypervisor is not designed to be configurable for dual boot. This isn't a Mac limitation so much as an ESXi thing, and honestly it's not something you'd want to try even on non-Apple hardware. Also, VMware Fusion is the Type 2 Hypervisor available for the Mac OS -- not VMware Workstation. I think there may be a Virtual Box release for the Mac though; you'd have to check. Wise Registry Cleaner Pro 5.94 Free Download.
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AlanPA wrote: The typical scenario for playing with ESXi on a workstation is to run it nested. That means, you have VMWare Player or Workstation running one big VM with ESXi loaded into it. You could then run vSphere Client from the workstation to play with that ESXi VM and load new VMs inside of it. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing Player or Workstation for OS X on the VMWare site. Canzoniere Chitarra Straniere Pdf Free more. They only show downloads for Windows and Linux.
I don't know if there is an old version of either of those that was made for OS X. You'd only want to run ESXi on VMware Player / Workstation / Fusion for training, proof-of-concept or basic testing purposes -- performance in this type of arrangement is less than ideal. It's a good idea though, if the OP is just wanting to learn how to install and configure ESXi. And as I mentioned earlier, VMware Fusion is the Type 2 Hypervisor product for the Mac environment (There is no Player or Workstation). Hey guys I managed to install ESXI 5.1 on the mac and it installed fine which is the one we used at work ( thought this version was free).