Re: [Qemu-discuss] QEMU virtual machine within virtual machine

[Rachel Attias (raattias)]

Hi Tony et all,

Thanks a lot for your response. I am new to QEMU & OpenWRT. I would really 
appreciate if you can answer a couple of my questions to help me understand 
what exactly I need.
First - I am not really concerned with performance at this point. I just want 
an off-shore system in which I can create & test apps for my TP-Link router, 
without ruining it.
Second - I did compile & load QEMU on my Kali linux machine, but I see that 
QEMU is intended to work only with a pre-prepared images. I found online a 
minimal testing Linux image, and it is working.
But this does not feel like what I expected from OpenWRT. I expected it to be a 
framework in which I can create apps and so. Am I mis-understanding something 
basic here?


Thanks,
Rachel

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Su [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 9:08 PM
To: Rachel Attias (raattias)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] QEMU virtual machine within virtual machine

 Running paravirtualization within paravirtualization (or full
virtualization) performs very poorly.

If you want to do something like this, I'd highly recommend Linux Containers, 
the current best implementation is probably Docker.

Docker (and other Linux Container implementations) merely <isolates> Guests, 
and does not use a paravirtualized kernel (ie. using hardware AMD or Intel CPU 
extensions). Instead, the processes for each Guest are isolated from each other 
but run as "full citizen" processes, all equal to each other. This lack of 
kernel emulation/virtualization allows you to nest Guests within each other if 
you want and all will run without any performance hit.

So, as examples you can use one instance of a paravirtualized Guest, but run 
the Guest within any number of Docker instances or run Docker instances within 
your paravirtualized Guest.

Tony

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Rachel Attias (raattias) <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I am trying to set up a QEMU virtual machine in Linux. But I don’t 
> have root permissions, so my “make install” is failing.
>
> I have a Kali Linux virtual machine on my laptop.
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> Does it make sense to install & run the QEMU virtual machine within 
> the Kali virtual machine?
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> Thanks,
> Rachel