Which Hyper-V feature allows you to install a virtual machine within another virtual machine?

Which Hyper-V feature allows you to install a virtual machine within another virtual machine?

• A. Checkpoints
• B. Nested Virtualization
• C. SLAT
• D. Hyper-V Containers

Answer: (B)

Nested virtualization is the ability to run a hypervisor inside a virtual machine, so you can create and run additional VMs within a guest VM. In Hyper-V, this means the host VM exposes virtualization extensions to the guest and has the necessary CPU virtualization features enabled, allowing the guest to act as a hypervisor itself. This capability is what makes installing a virtual machine inside another virtual machine possible. Checkpoints are just VM snapshots, not enabling nested VMs. SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is a hardware feature that makes virtualization efficient and is usually required for Hyper-V, but by itself it doesn’t enable nested virtualization. Hyper-V Containers are containerized workloads, not full nested virtual machines.

Nested virtualization is the ability to run a hypervisor inside a virtual machine, so you can create and run additional VMs within a guest VM. In Hyper-V, this means the host VM exposes virtualization extensions to the guest and has the necessary CPU virtualization features enabled, allowing the guest to act as a hypervisor itself. This capability is what makes installing a virtual machine inside another virtual machine possible.

Checkpoints are just VM snapshots, not enabling nested VMs. SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is a hardware feature that makes virtualization efficient and is usually required for Hyper-V, but by itself it doesn’t enable nested virtualization. Hyper-V Containers are containerized workloads, not full nested virtual machines.