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A VM nest in "big iron" isn't a special case. It's a context push with comparatively exhaustively defined costs, side effects, and implications.

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IMO, it’s only a special case for commercial support reasons. Almost every engineer, QE, consultant, solution architect I know runs or has run nested virtualization for one reason or another.

And licensing - DB2 and Oracle.

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