Virtualbox inside another virtualbox is not possible ?

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ranchupanchu
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Virtualbox inside another virtualbox is not possible ?

Post by ranchupanchu »

Hello,

I try to run virtualbox with linux inside another virtualbox guest Linux on a windows machine.

I have installed virtualbox on the Linux guest but I than get the following error:
" The hardware virtualization is enabled in the acceleration section of the system page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the virtual system"

I then tried to remove the setting of of acceleration VT-x, but then I get another setting error:
"The virtual machine operating system hint is set to a 64-bit type. 64-bit guest systems require hardware virtualization, so this will be enabled automatically if you confirm the changes"

Isn't it possible to run such configuration ? (Linux guest inside another Linux guest Linux on a windows machine)

Thanks,
ranran
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Re: Virtualbox inside another virtualbox is not possible ?

Post by socratis »

Nested virtualization became a reality just with version 6.0.0. At this moment it's only doable with AMD CPUs.
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