Virtualization.. as Escher would make it
Trust me, the Hyper-V installation & desingn posts are not finished yet; I will continue with that once I have regained some inspiration.
In the mean time, I got myself a shiny Macbook Pro (naah.. just the 15" version) with 4 GB memory and it's waiting for me to finally start practicing photoshop. There however lies a problem; I think I lack some expressionistic genes and after 1 month of downloading and installing all cool Mac stuff it is time to actually start utilizing the machine. Besides initiating RDP sessions to my Hyper-V servers, there must be some better use for the machine 
Well.. Since Virtual PC for MAC is still not available I installed VMware Fusion (Workstation variant for MAC). I won't bother you with that install routine, it's next,next finish) and soon there was the inevitable question; what shall I run inside that? well.. let's do ESX!
So how to do that? Well there are quite some instructions available on the net (ie. here or here) so just click there to see what is the trick.
Installing ESX was a breeze now. After connecting to the console and creating a esx-VM (within a fusion-VM) I got a nifty little error: You may not power on a virtual machine in a virtual machine.
Well... that's kind of a bummer now isn't it?
Luckily there are some additional isolation settings that can be set within the vmx file as can be found here.
After some wrestling with formatting (quotes vs no quotes) the VM actually powered on and right now it's installing VMware virtual center.
Of course performance is not really stunning but that's logical. After all, you have to be kind of a weirdo to want this I suppose. Apart from that; for about 800 euro's a fine 8 GB physical host can be purchased but yeah.. my attick is already at full power capacity .
So, is there any use of this evenings work? Practically; not really. However the plan is to connect to virtual center server to SCVMM. Aha! now that's a use