ESXi very well may boot under SmartOS, but you won't be able to run any VMs! :-)
The thing "closest to the metal" has to support nested virtualization to do what you're talking about. ESXi supports it; SmartOS does not. On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Chris Ferebee <[email protected]> wrote: > I was just wondering about that. > > So it’s not possible to virtualize VMware ESXi under SmartOS? > > I know the reverse does work fine, and I have done it, with PCI passthrough > for the LSI host adapters, but my SmartOS installation is production and my > ESXi needs are strictly experimental, so I don’t want to put the ESXi > underneath SmartOS at this point. > > Best, > Chris > >> Am 21.03.2017 um 21:21 schrieb Joshua M. Clulow <[email protected]>: >> >> On 21 March 2017 at 12:37, John Barfield <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Is it possible to enable nested virtualization using SmartOS KVM? >>> (-qemu_extra_opts maybe?) >> >> No, our port of the KVM driver from Linux to illumos does not support >> nested virtualisation. There would be some amount of KVM and QEMU >> work needed to port that support. >> >> Cheers. >> >> -- >> Joshua M. Clulow >> UNIX Admin/Developer >> http://blog.sysmgr.org >> > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
