What I feared. Oh well, thanks for all the help, I'll guess I need a new system to play with.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/20/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Jones</b> <<a href="mailto:rich@annexia.org">rich@annexia.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:<br>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:44:13PM +0100, Nahuel Marisi wrote:<br>
> [...]<br>> > I was wondering if I can actually virtualize Xen in Virtualbox or other<br>> > similar (preferably open source or free) VM.<br>><br>> In theory it should be possible to nest virtual servers indefinitely - and<br>
> you can do this on S/390 - but in practice it doesn't really work on x86 and<br>> you'd be better off scrounging another PC from somewhere and using that.<br><br>It's not possible even in theory on a PC. Unlike mainframes, neither<br>
paravirtualization (as in Xen) nor hardware virtualization can be<br>nested.<br><br>Also, full emulators like Bochs don't emulate the hardware accurately<br>enough that you can run Xen or KVM inside them. I know, coz I tried<br>
it once.<br><br>You can however run QEMU inside a KVM guest, although it's really<br>slow. We do this for testing oVirt out on single developer machines.<br><br>Rich.<br><br>--<br>Richard Jones<br>Red Hat<br>--<br>Gllug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Gllug@gllug.org.uk">Gllug@gllug.org.uk</a><br>
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