virtualising vbox

[Loïc Grenié]

2009/10/31 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:
> Just for fun, I tried installing VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 9.04 VM. It
> seemed to work, right up to when I tried to start it :-) At that point
> it hung. After several minutes I decided it had no intentions of
> returning to life and stopped it.
>
> Before I spend anymore time on it, is it silly to expect VirtualBox to
> run on a VirtualBox VM? Is there a trick?
>
> I suspect it *is* silly, but it would be so cool if it worked :-)

     The CPU in the virtual machine has probably no "virtualization
  instruction". This means that, if it works, the VM will be a
  pure software emulator. Try qemu, it should work (slowly !).

     Then VirtualBox will come later...

            Loïc