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Hello,

My setup is

Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit

This is running Virtual Box

I have created a Windows 7 64 Bit Guest OS

On that OS I have installed Virtual Box

I want to try to install Laravel Homestead as a development environment laravel . com/docs/5.1/homestead

As far as I can see, you can install a vm inside another vm, when I try to boot the guest os inside the vm I get the following message

VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Your 64 bit guest will fail to detect a 64 bit CPU and will not be able to boot.

When I look at the settings for the guest os the acceleration tab is greyed out.

Question is, am I trying to do the impossible?

Yes.

Nested virtualization is not supported in VirtualBox. You may get 32-bit guests to work albeit really slow but that is still not supported.

Thanks for the quick response, will have to make a dedicated machine for the job