I've tried this a couple different ways and I always get the same result, which is a spinning beach ball during the boot process. My current setup is ESXi 5.5 running inside a Fusion 6 VM, with 8GB of RAM allocated and 40GB of disk. I attached InstallESD.dmg (and I've also tried creating a custom mavericks iso) as a virtual device on the Fusion-based ESXi host. I then create a new virtual machine, declaring it as a 10.7 64-bit system, allocating 4GB of ram and 25GB of disk (which leaves approximately 7GB free on the ESXi host datastore). I set the optical drive to be attached at power on and to use the host device. If I then power on the VM with the console open, it starts to boot, showing the gray screen with a slightly darker Apple logo, the progress indicator starts to move, and then after 10-20 more seconds, I get the beach ball icon, which spins endlessly. I've tried upgrading it to hardware version 10, I've tried moving an existing Fusion vmdk into place and booting it (which ESXi doesn't like at all). All of this is being done on a current model Mac Pro. I've googled around for it and I mostly find kludgy discussions of trying to run ESXi 5.1 and installing OS X on non-Apple hardware.
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