You can do it with QEMU. It works just fine. with the performance you can expect from nested virtualization.
~Swapnil On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bob Ball <bob.b...@citrix.com> wrote: > I can’t speak for KVM, but this is certainly possible using XenServer. > We’ve run nested virtualisation and nested OpenStack instances (primarily > devstack instances for testing) many times.**** > > There is a degradation in performance, as you would expect from nested > virtualisation, but it’s definitely functional.**** > > ** ** > > Bob**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Marco Fornaro [mailto:marco.forn...@huawei.com] > *Sent:* 02 October 2013 08:58 > *To:* openstack@lists.openstack.org > *Subject:* [Openstack] Openstack IN a Virtual Machine?**** > > ** ** > > Hi All,**** > > ** ** > > I have a question on Openstack that is quite important for my cloud > architecture:**** > > ** ** > > à *Can I have a complete Openstack instance running ON a VIRTUAL MACHINE?* > > ** ** > > *Or, generalizing: can I have “nested” openstack instances?* > > ** ** > > …and ….If this is possible…are there any constraints?**** > > ** ** > > NOTES:**** > > ->I’m interested to openstack instances WITH all network features > available, meaning Quantum server with (preferably) openwswitch plugin, so > I would be interested in VMs with a nested openstack image that do provide > or access quatum server features…BUT even a flat DHCP network would be > better than nothing!**** > > ->I normally use KVM as Hypervisor**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Thanks so much for any help**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Best Regards**** > > ** ** > > Marco Fornaro**** > > ** ** > > P.S.: if this is a “newbie” question I apology, but I cannot find a clear > answer in doc (see for instance > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix) AND perhaps some > little words could save a lot of time when trying to realize such a nested > achitecture**** > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > >
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