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This is a stupid question, but can you run a VMWare Modern instance, and inside of that have a VMWare Ancient instance that runs Windows 95/98? I've never hear
by x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
This is a stupid question, but can you run a VMWare Modern instance, and inside of that have a VMWare Ancient instance that runs Windows 95/98? I've never heard of nesting VMs, but I've never looked either.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoIf the VM depends on hardware virtualization support, you can only go one layer deep. If the VM does not depend on hardware support, then sure you should be able to nest multiple layers. For really old software, you can probably get away with fairly high overhead emulation rather than virtualization, and it would probably be less buggy. I would imagine something like qemu would have no trouble booting up windows 95.
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago> f the VM depends on hardware virtualization support, you can only go one layer deep Most VM support nesting of hardware virtualization, with glaring exceptions being Windows's HyperV (until W11 apparently) and Xen.
- mook 5y agoWas there even hardware virtualization support to take advantage of if you're going that old?
- wila 5y agoYes, that's exactly what I do. This way you get the binary translation feature from the older VMware version while you can use the hardware accelerated virtualisation in the outer layer.
- mysterydip 5y agoThat's actually how the VMware training courses I participated in were run: each student had their own virtual datacenter made up of multiple VMs.