Not sure how Vmware ESX works, but if it works like Hyper–V and wants to talk with the CPU, it would need to talk to the CPU(Via Intel VT or AMD-V.
But what you could do is using VirtualBox, that one would most likely work, but will not have a good performance. And would not be a good practice in any way!
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