[Cialug] Nested virtualization

[Matthew Nuzum]

For the record, I tried running a Xen Dom U in virtualbox  a couple months
ago and it didn't work, even when HVM was not used. The VM simply black
screened after the "bios" post. I was surprised by this since I wasn't
trying to use HVM but oh well.

2009/12/2 Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>

> Thanks for the feedback to my question--you gave me some more ideas to
> consider, which is exactly what i needed.
>
> I'll investigate exporting a VirtualBox image and importing it into Xen.
> As the 2 require different software to be installed on the guest OS (i
> think Xen actually wants a different kernel), that could be interesting.
> But, perhaps it is possible.
>
> If that doesn't work i think i'll take the other suggestions of
> installing a Xen dom0 on my machine and making sure VirtualBox doesn't
> run at the same time. Once i'm done with Xen, i should be able to
> uninstall the extra kernel and related software and go back to
> VirtualBox.
>
> On 2009-11-30 at 15:50:09, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> >Has anyone tried running either VirtualBox and Xen on the same
> >machine[1]? Alternatively, how about running Xen within VirtualBox[2]?
>
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