Hello
Just out of interest ...
Can you log in to a virtual desktop within a virtual desktop within a virtual desktop etc... (disappear down a virtual desktop rabbit hole) ?
Not with Virtual Destops, but you can with Remote Desktops.
I think I might be mixing up virtual & remote desktops.
We use VMWare, which I think is a virtual desktop ?
You are confusing a virtual machine with virtual desktops.
Virtual desktops just show open apps on host OS separated between different desktops - so you might show a game app in one desktop say, and a Word app in other. So when you flip between virtual desktops, you only see app you are focussing on i.e. screen is not cluttered up with both.
A virtual machine (vm) is a completely different beast. A vm is an emulation of a pc in its entirety.
With hyper-v (type 1 hypervisor) you can nest virtual machines i.e. host runs a virtual machine, and that virtual machine can run a virtual machine. However, you can only have three levels - host to vm1 to vm2. Note only Intel cpus can nest vms. AMDs can only run host and a vm.
VMWare is a type 2 hypervisor,but like all type 2 hypervisors it is limited as above, as it still interface with hardware to some extent (less than type 1 hypervisor).
It is theoretically to create a vm that would be totally software based, and nest ad infinitum (memory, storage limiting it). However, such a vm would be incredibly slow, and impractical in real terms.
AMD CPU's can nest VM's in KVM/QEMU - nesting though has to be enabled via Kernel module (as it does on Intel).
As far as Windows Hosts are concerned I have no idea but there's no reason purely hardware wise why AMD can't nest VM's.
Nesting VM's is fine when you want to test things like Esxi and then have a VM running on Esxi for example.
Cheers
jimbo
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