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[Daniel Ellison <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:19 PM, "Parrott, Robert" <parrott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> No. You can't use KVM in a guest since it requires hardware virtualization. Instead you need to use qemu in emulation mode. Refer to the devstack code for how to set this up, since devatack will work in Amazon EC2.

I will probably take a look at the devstack code, then. But the purpose of nested KVM is to allow direct access to the cpu virtualization extensions of the host machine from a properly-configured guest. That would be ideal.

But all I REALLY want to do is create KVM images, not actually run them. If there's another way to do that, I'll be happy.

Thanks,
Dan