Re: [PLUG] VMware Workstation 8/9, Player 4/5 & Ubuntu 12.04, (& 12.10)

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:41:27 -0500
> From: "Eric H. Johnson"<ejohnson@camalytics.com>

> The nested virtualization caught my attention. I was trying to play with
> TAILS (part of the Tor project:https://tails.boum.org/). To build a custom
> distro requires virtualization (VirtualBox) and TAILs is based on Debian. I
> don't have a Debian based machine and without nested virtualization, means
> Debian needs to be installed to bare metal.
>
> You don't happen to know if one can nest a VM other than VMWare?

I don't sorry.  I was actually kind of surprised that even VMware 
allowed it, though it does seem new.  I dunno, that just feel kinda 
"icky" to me. :-)  I do see how it can be quite useful in some special 
circumstances though.

Later,
JP
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