Hello everyone,
I'm reaching this forum as I have some questions and doubts about my lab project.
As mentioned in the forum, I've seen several links on how to setup a home lab for nested virtualization, seen restrictions about x64 VM and so on.
My objective is, to virtualize ESXi 5.1, why not XenServer, and of course run lots of VM inside these hypervisors, test clustering etc..
The hypervisor would be VMware Workstation 9 on Linux.
My CPU choice would go on the AMD FX 8350 -Piledriver- processor.
It supports AMD-V and RVI.
That is when the questions begin.
- For my configuration, I need AMD-V, for sure.
- It seems that the RVI (nested table) will be mandatory to run 64 bits VM inside my WKS9, but also for the ESXi 5.1 to run, right ?
- The chipset (say 990X) will support IOMMU (intel VT-d eqv ?), but is this mandatory for the motherboard to implement IOMMU ? What would this help ? Do I need this to assign physical ethernet ports to my 1st and 2nd level VMs for instance ?
Thanks for your answers and ideas 