Windows in Windows in Windows, thanks Windows 10

[The Benjamins]

Windows 10 insider preveiw now supports nested virtual machines in virtual machines. That is so cool, not sure how useful though.

 

 

 

 

 

Call it Windows Inception. Microsoft has revealed that the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview supports nested virtualization, which lets you launch a virtual machine within another virtual machine -- yes, you can run Windows inside of Windows inside of Windows. The trick is a new feature that supports hardware-based virtualization within a primary virtual machine, providing for that one extra layer. There are limits, of course. Features like dynamic memory won't work, and nesting currently requires an Intel processor with VT-x support (most chips from the past several years will do). So long as everything lines up, though, you too can create a hall of mirrors effect on your PC -- even if it doesn't serve much of a practical purpose.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/14/windows-10-nested-virtualization/

 

Under the hood

Consider the diagram below, which shows the “normal” (i.e. non-nested) case. The Hyper-V hypervisor takes full control of virtualization extensions (orange arrow), and does not expose them to the guest OS.

 

Contrast this with the nested diagram below. In this case, Hyper-V has been configured to expose virtualization extensions to its guest VM. A guest VM can take advantage of this, and install its own hypervisor. It can then run its own guest VMs.

 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/10/13/windows-insider-preview-nested-virtualization.aspx

[ShadowCaptain]

New task for you

Create a virtual machine each time getting progressive older and older

so 10, 8.1, 7, xp, etc etc etc

[pwn_intended]

I heard you like windows dawg, so I put windows inside your windows inside your windows so you can windows while you windows while you windows.

[Aytex]

Windoception

[manikyath]

so.. for school OS class, we had to create a virtualisation server pool... in virtual machines.

 

would be nice if it actually worked decently..

[Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus V]

is windows 10 sending info to their servers , WE GOT A THUG LIFE OPERATIVE SIR GATES , THE THUG OPENED A WINDOW IN A WINDOW !

[The Benjamins]

New task for you Create a virtual machine each time getting progressive older and older so 10, 8.1, 7, xp, etc etc etc

 

sadly as of now you need the newest version of hyper-V in the first VM too so you can do this yet. the Microsoft blog post explains a lot.

[ShadowCaptain]

sadly as of now you need the newest version of hyper-V in the first VM too so you can do this yet. the Microsoft blog post explains a lot.

 

aww

[rcarteraz]

Mind blown! lol.

[NumLock21]

Someone should do virtual machine with all the editions starting from dos and all the way to 10. win 95 itself has 4 editions.

[RexinOridle]

Bet 3 Letter agencies are pidssed off.

[TetraSky]

Can it handle playing games or is it mostly just CPU driven, as in, unable to do anything more than basic tasks ?

[The Benjamins]

Can it handle playing games or is it mostly just CPU driven, as in, unable to do anything more than basic tasks ?

 

Hyper-V has 3d open-gl or cl support, but for games I am not sure. I dont know if you can pass a GPU to the VM.

[Misanthrope]

Windows in windows in windows, all of it in Linux who has been doing this shit for decades. And you can thank people like VMWare for that, not Microsoft.

[typographie]

Windoception

 

Winception.

 

I like mine better.

[MrRavens]

haha noice

[LukaP]

New task for you Create a virtual machine each time getting progressive older and older so 10, 8.1, 7, xp, etc etc etc

cant. only 10 has the hardware vt features in its vm code

[ShadowCaptain]

cant. only 10 has the hardware vt features in its vm code

 

well balls

[NumLock21]

Now we can have a bsod within a bsod within a bsod!

[Shakaza]

Now we can have a bsod within a bsod within a bsod!

Darn, I want to do that now!

 

Though, I don't have access to a Windows 10 machine that is powerful enough to run a VM efficiently, and I don't know any ways currently to induce a BSOD on it since I can't overclock. Maybe there's some program...

[LukaP]

well balls

suck em if you got em

 

Now we can have a bsod within a bsod within a bsod!

oi its a NSOD now. nice screen of death

[NumLock21]

suck em if you got em

 

oi its a NSOD now. nice screen of death

-snip-

Crap, forgot that it takes up the whole screen, so no bsod within bsod then.

[Doobeedoo]

Wow haha

[Albatross]

It isn't impressive at all...

 

Windows in windows in windows, all of it in Linux who has been doing this shit for decades. And you can thank people like VMWare for that, not Microsoft.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

[Dabombinable]

So......Microsoft create a useless feature for Windows 10 instead of a useful one that allows the ability to easily pass through a GPU to the VM.