Is it possible to run Xen in a VirtualBox VM?

[Pratyush Yadav]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau at citrix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:25:21PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried running Xen in a VirtualBox guest and it errors in the boot
>> process giving this error:
>>
>> xenoprof: Initialization failed. Intel processor family 6 model 60 is
>> not supported.
>> Dom0 has maximum 600 PIRQs
>>
>> ***********************
>> Panic on cpu 0:
>> Error creating domain 0
>> ***********************
>>
>> So, is it even possible to run Xen in a VM? If it is, how can I fix
>> this problem?
>
> It's likely possible to run Xen + Linux Dom0 inside of VirtualBox, but
> it's almost certainly not possible to run Xen + FreeBSD inside of
> VirtualBox because it would require an emulated IOMMU, which I don't
> think VirtualBox provides.

I am working on the Xen grant table handlers (for my Google Summer of
Code project [0]) , so do you think I would need to run Xen + FreeBSD
when testing?

Also, how can I fix the error I'm currently getting about Intel
processor not being supported?

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav

[0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6165033877241856