On 02/10/2017 12:36, George Dunlap wrote: >>> Although I'm not business man, I don't think the top cloud provider[s] >>> would allow nested virtualization, however mature nested virtualization >>> is. Even xen-pv is unable to be nested in the aws and azure. >> >> Check the contributors to KVM nested virtualization, you might be surprised. >> >> Nested Xen PV is not possible because the Xen hypervisor cannot run as a PV guest.>> It's a technical limitation. > > Minor correction: Xen can't run on AWS as a PV guest, but it can run > as an L1 hypervisor inside any "fully virtualized" VM (as both AWS and > Azure provide), and provide PV L2 guests. Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks George! Paolo