The answer is sort of.\u00a0 Strictly speaking it is possible.\u00a0 You can indeed enable the Hyper-V role in a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done it on both OS\u2019s on both VMware Workstation 6.5 and on Hyper-V.\u00a0 Logically this means you can deploy Hyper-V Server 2008 and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in a VM.<\/p>\n
You can even create VM\u2019s on the hosts.\u00a0 However, the hardware requirements are not passed through to the VM\u2019s and therefore the hypervisor never starts up.\u00a0 That means you cannot start up those VM\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Why would you care?\u00a0 You certainly cannot do it in a production scenario.\u00a0 But you might find it handy when doing some demos, lab work or testing of clustering or VMM.<\/p>\n
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I have been told (but I have not tried this so I cannot say it will work) that you can get Hyper-V to install and run\u00a0in an ESXi 3.X virtual machine.\u00a0 The performance is said to be awful, but might be useful for a lab with limited hardware.<\/p>\n
The answer is sort of.\u00a0 Strictly speaking it is possible.\u00a0 You can indeed enable the Hyper-V role in a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done it on both OS\u2019s on both VMware Workstation 6.5 and on Hyper-V.\u00a0 Logically this means you can deploy Hyper-V Server 2008 and … Continue reading “Can You Install Hyper-V in a VM?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[63,181,67,92,196,116,117],"class_list":["post-10175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v-server","tag-server-core","tag-vmm","tag-windows-server-2008","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t