virtualising vbox

Chris Jones christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch
Sat Oct 31 12:59:52 UTC 2009


Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 12:34 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
>>> What I am interested in is whether it is possible to run a VirtualBox VM
>>> inside a VirtualBox VM. 
>>> Has anyone managed to do this?
>> One question - why ?
> 
> Why not?

The VM machine most likely won't support the CPU capabilities, hardware 
drivers etc. that make VMs relatively efficient these days, so my guess 
is the VM in the VM would, if you can get it to run at all, be 
incredibly slow.

If its just out of curiosity then fine...

Chris




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