Re: [Xen-devel] KVM PV

[Nadav Amit]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 02/10/2017 12:36, George Dunlap wrote:
>>>> Although I'm not business man, I don't think the top cloud provider[s]
>>>> would allow nested virtualization, however mature nested virtualization
>>>> is. Even xen-pv is unable to be nested in the aws and azure.
>>> 
>>> Check the contributors to KVM nested virtualization, you might be surprised.
>>> 
>>> Nested Xen PV is not possible because the Xen hypervisor cannot run as a PV guest.>> It's a technical limitation.
>> 
>> Minor correction: Xen can't run on AWS as a PV guest, but it can run
>> as an L1 hypervisor inside any "fully virtualized" VM (as both AWS and
>> Azure provide), and provide PV L2 guests.
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant.
> 
> Thanks George!

BTW: If anyone missed, Google already announced that they started supporting
nested virtualization.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-nested-virtualization-for.html

Nadav

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