[colug-432] Cloud-based nested virtualization or other "wrapping" alternatives

[Jim Wildman]

Might try Ravello (now owned by Oracle).  I've seen some crazy stuff going on there.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Jeff Frontz wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> wrote:
>       look for a provider that offers Xen HVM
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> It would need to be a provider that offers HVM nesting, right?  The provider would host my
> instance of a newer distro/kernel and then I'd nest the legacy kernel in an instance running
> under the newer distro.  What I'm wondering is whether such a capability is even possible (i.e.,
> do the processor primitives that support virtualization allow too much access to the physical
> hardware, and thus they're not exposed to the hosted/top-level instance?).
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