How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
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How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Hi Team,
Trying to enable Nested Virtualization for Intel CPU, May I know the steps ? if possible.
Thanks,
Kiran
Trying to enable Nested Virtualization for Intel CPU, May I know the steps ? if possible.
Thanks,
Kiran
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Nested virtualization is not currently (6.0.6) supported on Intel hosts.
Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
omg, way not? What's the reason?
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
According to the VirtualBox devs, Intel made it significantly more complicated to implement than AMD did. The Intel support is a work-in-progress so keep watching this space.VM-F4n[2] wrote:What's the reason?
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Hi All, I just updated my virtualbox on 6.0.10 release. My host system is an Intel cpu (i5- third generation). I would like to know if I can turn the nested virtualization on for my Linux guest system. From the options under cpu tab the option is greyed out . How long anyone should wait for getting this option on intel cpus? I need to run some nested virtualization tests, but if it takes much time to enable it, I would swap on another hypevisors. Please let me know
Thanks in advance.
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
I would like to know which parts of the previous answers you didn't quite understand; nested virtualization is available only for AMD CPUs, not Intel ones, as of this writing.Alexander6 wrote:I would like to know if I can turn the nested virtualization on for my Linux guest system
The developers never reveal their plans/timeline. Can you imagine what would happen if they said "By Sep/2019" and they couldn't deliver? Everybody would yell "Murder!"...Alexander6 wrote:How long anyone should wait for getting this option on intel cpus?
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Ok, could you suggest me another hypevisor ready to intel nested virtualization? Do you know if vmware player supports it ?
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
No. I use exclusively VirtualBox.
Plus, I'm mostly on OSX, I doubt that if I were to suggest Parallels or Fusion (haven't tried either) would help you...
Plus, I'm mostly on OSX, I doubt that if I were to suggest Parallels or Fusion (haven't tried either) would help you...
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Yes. VMware workstation/Player is capable of doing this. I used it for quite complex vSphere scenarios. At the moment switching to VirtualBox due to the fact that VMwareWorkstation is not supporting a bigger MTU size than 1500, which is not working with NSX-T. If you are fine with this limitation, Workstation is fine.Alexander6 wrote:Ok, could you suggest me another hypevisor ready to intel nested virtualization? Do you know if vmware player supports it ?
Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Now the feature is involved for Intel-CPU's in 6.1.0.
How to use it?
Is there a tutorial?
How to use it?
Is there a tutorial?
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Try the 6.1 User Manual Section 9.33
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
Just tried to start docker in Windows VM. Doesn't work. I don't know if it's Docker problem or VBox.
details: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issue ... -567097907
details: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issue ... -567097907
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Re: How to enable Intel - Nested Virtualization ?
For the moment only VirtualBox-inside-VirtualBox is supported. Also, the related User Manual chapter, Nested Virtualization, lists some limitations. Maybe that's what's not working...rion wrote:Just tried to start docker in Windows VM
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