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From: Jeff Forbes <jeff.forbes@mail.nacon.com>
To: "qemu-discuss@nongnu.org" <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Windows-10 virtualization and nested virtualization
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:08:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459800526.3392.19.camel@nacon.com> (raw)

We have a Windows-10 application which uses a virtual as part of the
process. I am trying to get the application to work in a virtual
environment, which of course will require nested 	virtualization.

Using a libvirt xml description for a RHEL virtual where nested 
	virtualization works, I installed windows-10, Hyper-v and the
application software under the latest updates of Fedora 22.
Windows-10 works great; however, VMBus device required for Hyper-V to
work would not start and was flagged in the Device Manager. Trying to
start a virtual resulted in the error that a component required by
Hyper-V failed to start.

I then ported the VM to VMWare Workstation 12 and in this environment t
he VMBus device starts and nested virtuals start as expected. These
results indicated that the VM was working correctly and the problem was
likely with the QEMU-KVM hypervisor.

Reading recent messages on the KVM and QEMU mail lists indicated that
there were many KVM updates made to the 4.6.0-rc1 kernel, so I
download, compiled and installed this kernel. I also cloned the latest
version of qemu. When I run my Windows-10 VM in this environment with
the latest updates. the VMBus device starts and there are not warnings
in the Device Manager; however, the nested VMs do not start and the
same error about a component required by Hyper-V failed to start.

Do I need to turn something on to get this to work or is the Hyper-V
support still under development?

Please advise.


Best,

Jeff

             reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 20:08 Jeff Forbes [this message]
2016-04-04 21:35 ` Windows-10 virtualization and nested virtualization Bandan Das
     [not found]   ` <jpg4mbhukep.fsf-oDDOE2N8RG3XLSnhx7PemevR1TjyzBtM@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 15:27     ` Jeff Forbes
     [not found]       ` <1459956469.3288.5.camel-jBWwstxfxdsAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 16:11         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-06 17:45           ` Jeff Forbes
     [not found]             ` <1459964757.3288.19.camel-jBWwstxfxdsAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 18:10               ` Paolo Bonzini

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