Windows nested Proxmox

JustaGuy

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I'd like to put a PVE in a VM on my Windows 7 box, and add it to the cluster now & again.

This so I can occasionally move one VM back & forth without downtime should the server PVE is installed to have to reboot.

I've tried Virtualbox, which said in it's docs that it supported Virtualized VT extensions for guests, but apparently their methods weren't sufficient for PVE because the web interface disabled KVM & I could only create OpenVZ containers.

Tried and failed with Microsoft VirtualPC & VMWare Server as well.

Does anyone know a way to make something like this work?
 
you could try qemu - fully software-based virtual cpu - so this might help, but I doubt virtualization within virtualization will be easy on x86/64

regards
hk
 
This sounds like a very bad idea from a performance standpoint, especially with KVM running over any virtual machine.
It's also unorthodox, which means nobody is doing it so you can't count on other people's support and experience.

Try to define your problem better, I'm sure there is a way easier and saner solution to it. High availability can be reached without overcomplicating.
 
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