[CentOS] using kvm

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Wed Jan 5 00:43:32 UTC 2011


On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Jerry Geis wrote:

> All -  I am running a virtual windows 7 (pro 64) on centos 5.5 x86_64.
> I was hoping to run virtual XP inside windows7 in this configuration.
>
> I get an error about cannot start virtual XP when I try this.
> Do I not have something setup correctly or can I not run a "double"
> virtual environment?

I'd be very surprised if that would work.  The virtual environments
check for the correct processor type.  A "virtual cpu" is probably not
on the list..

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