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Virtual PC on Hyper-V – is that possible?
If you recall my previous post about trying to start Hyper-V virtual machine on Hyper-V virtual machine, you would see that it’s not possible. But what if you want to have Virtual PC (which does not have hardware requirements) on Hyper-V? Is that possible? Domagoj Pernar, Associate Consultant for virtualization technologies at Microsoft Croatia has already tried that, and he says that it is possible, but…
Here is what Domagoj says:
…that scenario will work for you, but the question here is how it will work, or what will be performance for second virtual machine installed iniside first virtual machine. The performance will be very poor, as a matter a fact CPU of your first virtual machine will be almost constantly on 100% workload. Explanation behind that is really simple; first virtual machine already have virtual CPU not so strong as your physical computer, so then you lend some power of that ‘low’ performance CPU to second virtual machine, and the first CPU becomes tired and confused.
You can read full article at Domagoj’s blog.
By Ilija Brajkovic | June 25, 2009
Tags: hyper-v, virtual pc, virtualization
Category: virtualization | Comments
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