Let’s say i have a reasonable hardware and want to create an n number of virtual machines inside eachother for no particular reason but to experiment, i have a few questions:

What would be the best way to approach the problem?

What are weird problems that i would encounter?

After how many levels would my computer become unusable?

Would the loss of performance from a level to another be linear or exponential?

What’s the deepest level of nesting reached?

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Best approach: Try it. Tell us how it goes. It seems interesting to me but not interesting enough to spend an afternoon doing it.

    Weird problems: some virtualising software uses specific hardware features and just outright does not work in a virtual machine.

    Your limit should be how many times bigger your actual cpu or ram is compared to what is used by operating system + virtualization software.