Virtual machine inside Virtual machine

[Klinux]

Ok ok, sometimes crazy things happen

Host machine is Windows XP, it hosts a PClinuxOS guest with VirtualBox.
Inside the PClinuxOS guest I install VirtualBox.
Inside PClinuxOS I create another host virtual machine of MicroXP, so PClinuxOS is the guest of Windows XP, but the host of MicroXP.
Everything runs fine, but slow.
Consider installing MicroXP on modern machines should take around 10 minutes or less, well in the Virtual machine its taking many hours.

A tip, never try this, unless you have much time ;-)

[T6]

this depends on the resources available, if your cpu is a single core, well you wanted this to happen, if you have 4 or 6 cores, that is a different story

[Klinux]

I have a Core 2 Duo, but the virtual machine installed in Windows XP uses only one core, but you are probably right, with a qud core it could be faster ;-)

[YouCanToo]

Ok ok, sometimes crazy things happen

Host machine is Windows XP, it hosts a PClinuxOS guest with VirtualBox.
Inside the PClinuxOS guest I install VirtualBox.
Inside PClinuxOS I create another host virtual machine of MicroXP, so PClinuxOS is the guest of Windows XP, but the host of MicroXP.

I am really not sure why one would want to run a virtual environment with in a virtual environment.  Can you give me a clue/idea what the benefit(s) to this would be?

Everything runs fine, but slow.
Consider installing MicroXP on modern machines should take around 10 minutes or less, well in the Virtual machine its taking many hours.

A tip, never try this, unless you have much time ;-)

[YouCanToo]

I have a Core 2 Duo, but the virtual machine installed in Windows XP uses only one core, but you are probably right, with a qud core it could be faster ;-)

I thought there was a setting to tell the virtual machine how many cpu's that the host machine has.  On my laptop (Linux) it is set for one. and that is all I have on the laptop.