Nested virtualization - lab
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I'm building a new beefy lab workstation. I considered getting some used servers, but doing some nested virtualization has worked out in the past and is going to carry a lower cost for what I'm doing. It's strictly for the purpose of working with HA.
I've virtualized some hosts with VMware, and have heard that Hyper-V Server 2016 now supports nested virtualization whereas 2012R2 had some issues. I haven't tried it though.
Has anyone tried nested virtualization with KVM, Xen, or Windows Server 2016?
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I have done it quite a bit on HyperV and KVM. Both were good.
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@tim_g said in Nested virtualization - lab:
I have done it quite a bit on HyperV and KVM. Both were good.
Hyper-V I'm guessing it was in 2016? 2012R2 was nearly unusable.
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@bbigford said in Nested virtualization - lab:
@tim_g said in Nested virtualization - lab:
I have done it quite a bit on HyperV and KVM. Both were good.
Hyper-V I'm guessing it was in 2016? 2012R2 was nearly unusable.
Yes, 2016.
Also, the VM that was running under Hyper-V, was Fedora. It was running KVM, hosting it's own VMs.
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If you do it on Hyper-V, this may help initially:
https://www.timothygruber.com/hyper-v-2/run-a-nested-vm-on-kvm-qemu-vm-in-hyper-v/
