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Nested virtualisation

Posted Sep 27, 2011 21:11 UTC (Tue) by robbe (guest, #16131)
Parent article: SmartOS: virtualization with ZFS and KVM

Nested virtualisation is quite useful in our datacenter, where we use it to test the hypervisor itself and train people on it. Doing that in a VM that can be cloned, snapshotted, etc. beats diddling about with bare-metal anytime.

Every problem in the datacenter can be solved via another layer of virtualisation.

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