sitole

Nitro is very interesting stuff

Support for nested virtualization has been added to the main SDKs. In the us-west-2 region, you can already see the "Nested Virtualization" option and use it with the new M8id, C8id, and R8id instance types.

This is really big news for micro-VM sandbox solutions like E2B, which I work on.

Has anyone tried turning on nested virt yet? Since the new container CLI spins each container in its own lightweight Linux VM via Virtualization.framework, I’m wondering whether the framework will pass the virtualization extensions through so we can modprobe kvm inside the guest.

Apple’s docs say nested virtualization is only available on M3-class Macs and newer (VZGenericPlatformConfiguration.isNestedVirtualizationSupported) developer.apple.com, but I don’t see an obvious flag in the container tooling to enable it. Would love to hear if anyone’s managed to get KVM (or even qemu-kvm) running inside one of these VMs.