On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote: > 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.. > I have not tried a VM within a VM (nested) although I have heard that it is possible. I guess the correct processor type could be passed with the "-cpu " parameter. -- Arun Khan