How to enable Nested Virtualization in KVM on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 | Linux Today

How to enable Nested Virtualization in KVM on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

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Pradeep Kumar
Dec 12, 2017

Nested virtualization means to configure virtualization environment inside a virtual machine. In other words we can say nested virtualization is a feature in the hypervisor which allows us to install & run a virtual machine inside a virtual server via hardware acceleration from the hypervisor (host).

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Pradeep Kumar

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