Yeah, I don't think you need to worry about it. Without the modprobe flag
configured on the KVM host, it won't allow a nested VM to be deployed.

-Si

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:51 AM Gary Dixon
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>
> Hi Simon
>
> Thanks for the info - its quite interesting !!
>
>
> We are running KVM hypervisor on Ubuntu 20.04 on AMD EPYC cpu's
>
> We haven't been enabling HVM on templates as we don't want users to be
> able to nest hypervisors within their VM's
>
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> From: Simon Weller <[email protected]>
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> Hey Gary,
>
> Welcome to the list.
>
> Firstly, which hypervisor are you using?
>
> HVM used to mean use hardware accelerated virtualization back in the day
> when it was still fairly new. It was required for some hypervisors, but not
> all.
> These days everything is hardware accelerated.
>
> If you are running KVM, you can enable the ability to run nested
> virilization by doing this -
>
> Intel -
> modprobe -r kvm_intel
> modprobe kvm_intel nested=1
>
> Make it permanent by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf:
> options kvm_intel nested=1
>
> AMD -
> modprobe -r kvm_amd
> modprobe kvm_amd nested=1
>
> Make it permanent by adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf:
> options kvm_amd nested=1
>
> Please note that CloudStack will not manage any nested virtualization
> unless Cloudstack itself is nested (e.g. a lab environment).
>
> -Si
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 8:28 AM Gary Dixon
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > HI
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry for the newbie question but …..
> >
> >
> >
> > When creating a template – does enabling the HVM option allow the
> > virtual machine to also be a hypervisor so that nested virtualization
> > can be achieved?
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