> I will do a fresh install in Fusion of ESXi now following your instructions. Just one thing. The line, smc.present = "TRUE". Should I add this to the .vms file before I start installing ESXi? Or does it not matter?
It does not hurt to add smc.present = TRUE to the ESXi VM before you start installing ESXi in it, but I believe you can do it at any time, provided you do things in this order:
1) Power off nested Mac OS guest
2) Power off ESXi VM
3) Add smc.present to the ESXi VM.
4) Power on ESXi VM
5) Power on nested Mac OS guest
> By the way I will be using an ISO downloaded from the VMware web site, build number 838463, file name of VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201210001-838463.x86_64.iso.
You can also use ESXi 5.1 Update 1 (Build 1065491) which was released on Apr 25th, 2013.