Nested virtualization, as most of you probably already know, is the ability to run a VM within a VM, like for example WSL2/WSA or Docker inside a Windows 11 guest (a quite interesting scenario, BTW): perfectly possible today on Intel Macs, but not yet on Apple Silicon (ARM). We also recently talked about this in the VMware Fusion community:
… but without reaching any real conclusions. The Apple virtualization framework doesn’t yet seem to allow nested VMs on Apple Silicon (Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion support them, but only on Intel): but the software could of course evolve, and take this into account; what worries me more is that some - even quite expert - people say that M1 systems don’t support nested virtualization at the hardware level, while M2 could do it (if implemented in the future by Apple’s virtualization framework): so, any interesting news, on all this…?
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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… but without reaching any real conclusions. The Apple virtualization framework doesn’t yet seem to allow nested VMs on Apple Silicon (Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion support them, but only on Intel): but the software could of course evolve, and take this into account; what worries me more is that some - even quite expert - people say that M1 systems don’t support nested virtualization at the hardware level, while M2 could do it (if implemented in the future by Apple’s virtualization framework): so, any interesting news, on all this…?