Xen in Xen (EC2?)

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Xen in Xen (EC2?)

by David Erickson-5 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi I am curious if anyone has tried to get a Xen hypervisor kernel and
dom0 booted on top of EC2, enabling you to virtualize your already
virtualized infrastructure? And if so what sort of issues you ran into
and if it was successful or not. I'm also interested in hearing why
or why not this can or cannot be done :)

Thanks,
David

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Re: Xen in Xen (EC2?)

by Pasi Kärkkäinen :: Rate this Message:

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On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:24:30PM -0800, David Erickson wrote:
> Hi I am curious if anyone has tried to get a Xen hypervisor kernel and
> dom0 booted on top of EC2, enabling you to virtualize your already
> virtualized infrastructure? And if so what sort of issues you ran into
> and if it was successful or not. I'm also interested in hearing why
> or why not this can or cannot be done :)
>

I don't think that's possible.

EC2 offers you paravirtualized guests; you cannot boot xen hypervisor as
a paravirtualized guest.

-- Pasi

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