Nested virtualization is very important feature if you’re using virtual machines for your daily tasks. If you’ve heard but not know much about it this blog post is for you.
You’ve probably watched the movie “Inception”. In this movie you dream in an other dream. This is a nested dream. Virtualization can also be nested like this. You have virtual machine but within the virtual machine you may have another virtual machine. This is not an easy thing (just like dream) since your CPU architecture and hypervisor must support this feature.
So we need to check 2 important features first:
- Does the CPU supports nested virtualization
- Does the Hypervisor supports nested virtualization