>-----Original Message----- >From Klaus Espenlaub >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:09 AM > >On 13.10.2010 21:35, Geoff Nordli wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Ruben Van den Bossche >>> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 1:59 AM >>> >>> Dear VBox developers, >>> >>> We are currently extending work performed by Olivier Berghmans >>> regarding nested virtualization (running a virtual machine inside >>> another virtual >> machine). >> >> Being able to do nested virtualization would be an amazing feature in >> VirtualBox!!!! > >Not sure if you're aware that such "amazing" statements tend to discredit the >message you're trying to bring across. There are so many features VirtualBox >could have, and for some reason this word is only used in a context where there >is most likely near zero customer demand for something which requires weeks of >work for the most skilled engineers. >
You are right, putting on the business hat you have to prioritize your resources to tackle the items most likely to drive demand for your customers. If someone told me I could sponsor an engineer for two weeks and I would get hardware level virtualization inside virtualbox, which would allow me to run ESXi, Hyper-V, and XEN, I would do it in a second. We will probably see more demand for this type of feature in future as more applications are designed to leverage the hardware virtualization available to them. > >What I know is that one can run VirtualBox (in software virtualization >mode) in a VirtualBox VM in hardware virtualization mode. The same should work >for other virtualizers, although I personally haven't tried. > >Klaus > Yes, you can run a type 2 hypervisor inside of virtualbox, but I would need to run a type 1 hypervisor which needs the hardware assisted virtualization to run. BTW, this isn't a feature that I was expecting to see, but since someone posted it, I am throwing my support behind it. Geoff _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev