We have a Windows-10 application which uses a virtual as part of the
process. I am trying to get the application to work in a virtual
environment, which of course will require nested virtualization.
Using a libvirt xml description for a RHEL virtual where nested
virtualization works, I installed windows-10, Hyper-v and the
application software under the latest updates of Fedora 22.
Windows-10 works great; however, VMBus device required for Hyper-V to
work would not start and was flagged in the Device Manager. Trying to
start a virtual resulted in the error that a component required by
Hyper-V failed to start.
I then ported the VM to VMWare Workstation 12 and in this environment t
he VMBus device starts and nested virtuals start as expected. These
results indicated that the VM was working correctly and the problem was
likely with the QEMU-KVM hypervisor.
Reading recent messages on the KVM and QEMU mail lists indicated that
there were many KVM updates made to the 4.6.0-rc1 kernel, so I
download, compiled and installed this kernel. I also cloned the latest
version of qemu. When I run my Windows-10 VM in this environment with
the latest updates. the VMBus device starts and there are not warnings
in the Device Manager; however, the nested VMs do not start and the
same error about a component required by Hyper-V failed to start.
Do I need to turn something on to get this to work or is the Hyper-V
support still under development?
Please advise.
Best,
Jeff
