# Installation on VMWare ESXi v6.5
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039
**Category:** Deployments
**Created:** [September 27, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039 "2022-09-27T15:14:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jkozak](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jkozak)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/1 "2022-09-27T15:14:54Z")
A colleague tried to install NixOS in the above VMWare environment and all of the available boot loader options just caused a reboot. Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@peterhoeg](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/peterhoeg)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/2 "2022-09-27T15:49:53Z")
> A colleague tried to install NixOS in the above VMWare environment and all of the available boot loader options just caused a reboot. Any suggestions?
We have quite a few of those running - I don’t recall if any are still booting in BIOS mode, but we definitely had some in the past. Can you share your config and some more details?
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### Author:  [@jkozak](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jkozak)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/3 "2022-09-30T14:51:04Z")
Do you mean the VMWare config?
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### Author:  [@peterhoeg](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/peterhoeg)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/4 "2022-10-01T03:09:59Z")
No, the nixos config you try to use inside the vm
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### Author:  [@jkozak](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/jkozak)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/5 "2022-10-03T09:00:43Z")
Didn’t get that far, the install media just rebooted on each of the options.
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### Author:  [@peterhoeg](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/peterhoeg)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/installation-on-vmware-esxi-v6-5/22039/6 "2022-10-05T08:19:43Z")
> Didn’t get that far, the install media just rebooted on each of the options.
So what are the contents of `/mnt/etc/nixos` ? That’s the configuration that is built inside the VM when you run the installer.