Nested VMWare VMs

[mubs]

My now dead PC ran a W98 VMWare VM inside VMWare Workstation 4 in XP Pro.

I'm planning to use VMWare Converter to convert the physical XP installation into a VM, then run this VM inside Win7-64 using VMWare Player. Will I be able to access the W98 VM inside the WinXP VM? Basically running one VM inside of another?

Thanks.

 

[Chewy509]

Current high-end Intel CPUs support VT-x/EPT which allows nested virtualisation instances. However I don't know if VMWare player can actually do it itself. (IIRC, ESXi can, but don' know about Player).

 

[Handruin]

I believe it is if you run with Workstation 9 or player 5:
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970

 

[ddrueding]

I'm with the rest in expecting it can, however I would recommend just pulling the VM files out to your 7 build and running the 98 VM alongside the XP VM, instead of inside it.

 

[Howell]

Nesting vms will play havoc with resource management.

 

[MaxBurn]

I'm with the rest in expecting it can, however I would recommend just pulling the VM files out to your 7 build and running the 98 VM alongside the XP VM, instead of inside it.

This, thould be easy to pull the machine out and make it stand alone.

 

[mubs]

Thanks all. The ideal situation would be to be able to run the W98 VM in Player 5 directly in W7-64. I'll be very happy with that. Will post back when I reach that stage.