Any providers support nested vm's?

[NodeBytes]

Just curious if you know of any providers that support nested vm's. I'm keen to try it out just for the fun of it.

Thanks!

 

[drmike]

You mean like Xen running and then OpenVZ running within that?

There was semi-recent thread over on that other site throwing mud BuyVM's way about dabbling into that in the past.

If providers are nesting, don't think they'll openly admit to such.  

 

[mikho]

If you are interested in trying out it yourself, any KVM/vmware/XEN(HVM) provider will work.

Like @,  said... only provider I've read about that openly said they do it is BuyVM and that is for internal stuff only. 

With the recent thread on LET about BuyVM doing it, I guess we have to take their word on it that they are not still doing it on production servers h34r:

 

[herbyscrub]

You can't really count OpenVZ as virtualization so if you put that in a hypervisor...you'll just end up with the performance of that VM.  If you nest something like HyperV in ESX, then you're really going to take a performance hit.

 

[Francisco]

If you are interested in trying out it yourself, any KVM/vmware/XEN(HVM) provider will work.

Like @,  said... only provider I've read about that openly said they do it is BuyVM and that is for internal stuff only. 

With the recent thread on LET about BuyVM doing it, I guess we have to take their word on it that they are not still doing it on production servers h34r:

Our original builds used it on vmware as I mentioned When buyvm originally opened we were on a very strict budget since Frantech was fully sold out as was our power. The vmware's ran OK unless ther was spikes. The biggest issue we had was vmtools kept crashing/unloading tanking performance. We actually had to have someone on hand 24/7 monitoring for load spikes/etc that would occur all the time.

We still do OVZ for internal stuff. I don't see a reason to keep big nodes around for compiling kernels/testing kernels when a simple KVM does it all.

Francisco

 

[prometeus]

We still do OVZ for internal stuff. I don't see a reason to keep big nodes around for compiling kernels/testing kernels when a simple KVM does it all.

 

This is very common indeed. Why on eart you should use a physical server for testing/developing? Common alternative to kvm is vmware when available