Hi Team, I want to know can I run Virtual box in Azure Ubuntu GUI Desktop? I tried in AWS and got nested virtualization error. So before giving short in Azure want to confirm from experts.

@Joomla Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue. Nested virtualization is supported in several Azure virtual machine families. This capability provides great flexibility in supporting scenarios such as development, testing, training, and demonstration environments. You can refer to this for more information. There is a similar thread here on StackOverflow as well which might be helpful to you. Hope it helps!!! Please "Accept as Answer" if it helped so it can help others in community looking for help on similar topics.

Can I run Virtual Box inside Azure Ubuntu Desktop service?

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prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-02-15T08:07:04.653+00:00

@Joomla Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue.

Nested virtualization is supported in several Azure virtual machine families. This capability provides great flexibility in supporting scenarios such as development, testing, training, and demonstration environments.

You can refer to this for more information.

There is a similar thread here on StackOverflow as well which might be helpful to you.

Hope it helps!!!

Please "Accept as Answer" if it helped so it can help others in community looking for help on similar topics.
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Joomla 81 Reputation points

2021-02-15T08:44:17.883+00:00

Thanks, the stack overflow article states Its only supported Windows OS. Also to enable this I need to run PowerShell command (Install-WindowsFeature -Name Hyper-V -Restart) where that command itself enabling Windows feature which will not be present on Ubuntu.

My requirement is to run Ubuntu as a Physical host machine and then run Virtual Box with Windows OS on top of that.

The other solution could be run Windows 2016 or Windows 10, enable nested virtualization then run Ubuntu over that and then inside Ubuntu again run VirtualBox but this can impact performance.

prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-02-15T09:50:35.357+00:00

@Joomla Thank you for the clarification :) Let me reach out to our internal team on this for clarity and I will keep you posted once I have an update.

Thanks

Joomla 81 Reputation points

2021-02-15T09:51:58.99+00:00

Many thanks and I appreciate your effort in closing this thread.

prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-02-15T10:04:35.51+00:00

@Joomla Also can you give me information about why you want to do Nested VM and then Virtual box, since you will have greater performance degradation, as there are multiple layers, instead of using the OS directly?

Thanks

Joomla 81 Reputation points

2021-02-15T10:07:22.347+00:00

I want to test the Malware Sandbox environment running on top of Ubuntu.

prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-02-19T14:49:16.817+00:00

@Joomla Apologies for all the delay in response.

Below is the response I got from our internal team:

You can use any of the V3 series which supports virtualization, and deploy Ubuntu, then run their test. We would indeed recommend that they should directly run it on Ubuntu machine rather then creating one on top due to performance involved.

Also it depends upon the application as well they are deploying if it has the required capability or not.

Hope it helps!!!

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Nithin Krishna Pemmasani 1 Reputation point

2021-10-26T20:50:39.923+00:00

I don't find any documentation to enable nested virtualization (virtualbox) on Azure linux vm as a host, is it possible to enable nested virtualization on linux vm?.
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