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W2008 server in a VM - can it run other VM's
Hi all
I'd like to test out various capabilities of W2008 server so was thinking about installing this as a VM.
However to usefully test out the server capabilities I need it itself to run some virtual machines.
Is this at all possible or am I wasting my time.
Hardware is sufficient - Quad processor 16 GB RAM.
I read somewhere that running a Virtual machine guest on a machine that itself is a virtual machine isn't possible -- but if this is true it rather inhibits a lot uuseful Server testing.
Whilst vmware says it doesn't support running Virtual machines inside other virtual machines I wonder if I could say install something like VBOX on the virtual machine as the VBOX program would presumably just be seen as another application .
SO Host SUSE LINUX or W7 running VMWARE.
VM W2008 Server .
on the vm server run Virtual Box with XP and W7 guests (one of each).
I could inhbit paging on the XP and W7 guests to minimize the virtual paging activity.
There should be plenty of CPU and RAM since the primary host wouldn't be running anything except the Virtual Machine software. The guests could have all the resources.
Anybody tried this type of approach yet.
(I could try VMWARE ES-X but thats much to expensive for what I want to do and is grossly overkill).
Cheers
jimbo.