[Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-03 Thread Rain Maker
Hello list, I am trying to setup a lab environment for a backup solution. This lab should be able to demonstrate the interaction the software has with certain hypervisors, such as VMWare, Hyper-V and KVM, and the VMs therein. My main focus is currently on Hyper-V. I've enabled nested virtualizati

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-04 Thread Rain Maker
Thanks Bandan. That helped a bit. It got me to the next hurdle, as you suspected. I modified the virsh XML so that -cpu host,+vmx,-hypervisor is passed, and the installation now reports "Hyper-V cannot be installed because virtualization support is not enabled in the BIOS.". I am sure that vmx i

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-05 Thread Rain Maker
l Brook 2015-10-05 21:18 GMT+02:00 Bandan Das : > Rain Maker writes: > >> Thanks Bandan. >> >> That helped a bit. It got me to the next hurdle, as you suspected. >> >> I modified the virsh XML so that -cpu host,+vmx,-hypervisor is passed, >> and the in

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-06 Thread Rain Maker
king at this, I can imagine that Windows does not detect a correct value. It will get 0. Would it make sense to cygwin KVM and see if that changes the MSR register? Sincerely, Roel Brook. 2015-10-05 23:17 GMT+02:00 Bandan Das : > Rain Maker writes: > >> Qemu on Linux works fine. I did

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-07 Thread Rain Maker
to automatically correct this, but Windows does not. I tried this on a VM booted with the built-in seabios, as well as a VM using the OVMF UEFI firmware. No difference in behavior. Thank you very much for the help so far. Roel Brook 2015-10-07 5:07 GMT+02:00 Bandan Das : > >> On Oct

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Supported hypervisors running VMs in nested VM

2015-10-10 Thread Rain Maker
it must be one of the other ones. Unfortunately, most of them are not listed in the Intel spec.. http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/stricker/lab/doc/intel-part4.pdf Sincerely, Roel Brook 2015-10-08 23:26 GMT+02:00 Bandan Das : > Rain Maker writes: > >> The screenshot and weird behavior I p