I used to use it (on x86) to run a dev/ops environment for an event VM cluster at home. We'd take backups from production VM servers and VMs after closing and I'd run them in one VM per physical server, with the same IP connectivity setup as prod so it would just work. Then I could work on things at home and dump them back on prod next time.
It was all running from a single USB SSD and set up in a way that I could USB boot it on any machine, so it also served as an emergency backup environment. If everything went wrong, we could boot it on a random laptop and continue minimum service from that.
The nested VMs definitely had *some* perf impact but it wasn't a showstopper.
Hector Martin
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2024-08-26 08:59:23 UTC
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