• [Xen-devel] KVM PV

    From Paolo Bonzini@21:1/5 to George Dunlap on Mon Oct 2 14:20:03 2017
    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!

    Paolo

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