Just trying out OpenSUSE in a Vbox VM (windows 8.1 host).
I installed Qemu-KVM via terminal and it installed ok (as far as I know), but now I can't find it anywhere, even if I do a search and can't even start it from terminal.
Am I doing something wrong or does it not work inside a VM?
This is what I get:
mike@linux-ilmq:~> qemu-kvm Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory mike@linux-ilmq:~>
There'a probably not much point worrying about it, I would be amazed if you could nest KVM hosted VM's inside a Virtual Box VM. However I am not sure if that is the reason for the error you are seeing, someone more knowledgeable on Linux and KVM will be able to tell you.
There are loose definitions for Type 1 & Type 2 HyperVisors. Type 1 generally means the hypervisor is running directly against the hardware, Type 2 means it is running against host OS. KVM, ESXi and Hyper-V are all Type 1, Virtual Box and VMware Workstation are Type 2.
Nesting Type 2 hypervisors inside VM's hosted on Type 1 hypervisors is sometimes possible, i.e. I have heard about people running VirtualBox inside a VM hosted on VMware ESXi. Doing it the other way round unlikely to be possible.
I'm running an i5-4570 which does have VT-x enabled.
I wasn't planing on actually creating a VM within the Linux VM - I only wanted to install this program to explore the options/features. But I can understand if it doesn't work at all because I'm installing it in a Virtualbox VM to begin with.