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Nesting VMs inside of VMs

Nesting VMs inside of VMs

- [Voiceover] Hi, this is Martin Guidry, and welcome to this week's edition of Building Your Technology Skills. This week, we're going to talk about nested virtualization. Nested virtualization is running a hypervisor on a virtual machine. Effectively this allows us to create virtual machines inside of other virtual machines. So, on a virtual server, I am going to install Windows Hyper-V. And then on that virtual server I can create new virtual servers. A few warnings about this, this is typically not supported by the vendors. Like I said, I am gonna do my demo with Hyper-V and this is definitely not supported by Microsoft, and therefore this is never appropriate for a production environment. You can do this in development and tested environments. You shouldn't do it in production. This could result in poor performance, a virtual inside of a virtual is going to possibly have much worse performance than we would get with a physical server or a type one hypervisor. And this will not…

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