I just saw this from Damian over at ozvms.com.  It’s a new whitepaper for installing ESX server under VMware Workstation 6.0 

Although this is a little off topic for my blog, this is fabulous news.  If you’ve ever had to write  install/upgade/whatever doco with screenshots for ESX, this is going to be a real life saver.  ..and the ability to test tools and products for ESX on your laptop with Vmotion is another huge benefit!!

Anyway you can check out a snippet below, and all the details are on the Xtravirt website:

This paper illustates how to install and configure VMware ESX3 Server to run within VMware Workstation 6. From this, VirtualCenter, VMotion, HA and DRS features can be configured.

Although performance is significantly reduced from that of a physical server, this type of environment opens considerable possibilities for portable client demonstrations and is excellent for self training and small lab environments.

This paper assumes the reader has good technical knowledge of VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3. The paper assumes that you know how to install the VirtualCenter2, License Server and Virtual Infrastructure Client.

The hardware used in this whitepaper was an IBM Thinkpad T60P laptop, Core Duo, 3GB memory, 120GB SATA Hard Disk.