You should see some output when running the command, else it was not properly enabled as seen in the screenshot below:Īnother command you can also run to check if the VM has been properly configure is the following: To validate that you have properly enable VHV, you run the following command: To be able to run either Qemu or KVM on top of ESXi, you just need to create a Virtual Machine running Virtual Hardware 10 and enable the (VHV) Hardware Assisted Virtualization feature which available in the vSphere Web Client as seen in the screenshot below: In the example below, I have selected the latest Ubuntu release (14.04.1) to run both Qemu and KVM. With this, I will now demonstrate how you can run Qemu as well as KVM as Virtual Machine on top of ESXi. I recommend a read if you are new to Qemu or KVM like I am.įrom the article above, we now see that you can run either Qemu as a standalone system or KVM which is an accelerator that runs on top of Qemu. I found this post to be quite helpful in helping me understand the differences between Qemu, KQemu and KVM. I figure since I have already written several articles on Nesting VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen on top of ESXi, I might as well also take a look at KVM!ĭisclaimer: Nested Virtualization is not supported by VMware, please use at your own risk.Īs mentioned already, I have not used KVM before and one thing I wanted to understand before trying to run it as a Virtual Machine is what the difference is between Qemu and KVM as I have heard both these terms used in-conjunction before.

I personally have not used KVM before or run it on top of ESXi, but I have heard of many folks successfully virtualizing KVM as a Virtual Machine on top of ESXi. Last week I was asked whether ESXi could run the KVM hypervisor as a Virtual Machine (often referred to as Nested Virtualization).

Apple virtualization vs qemu