

“Enable hardware-assisted virtualization” & “Use nested virtualization where available”. After clicking around for a bit I come across some very interesting settings. This wouldn’t be the first time an Anti-Virus product interfered with an application working properly so I started digging through the AV interface. In all the sifting & sorting one thing that kept jumping out was the Anti-Virus software. Honestly, I just go through each of them & see if something jumps out at me. The first thing I always do is use the analysis tools from the menu. If you’ve ever used ProcMon you know it’s more of an art than a science. After it runs for about a minute the fun task of sifting through the ProcMon log begins. So with Process Monitor running on the laptop I power on the VM again. When the VMware logo on the POST screen finally appeared I could see the screen painting making it look like an 80’s arcade game.Īs you can see that took way too long.

Watching the console of the nested VM I notice it seemed…slow.
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The configuration was simple enough the latest version of VMware Workstation, an ESXi host VM, & a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM nested in ESXi.

That’s what I was thinking when deploying nested virtual machines on vSphere 6.5 in my lab (OK, it’s my laptop).
