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Hello. Just two questions. Do your virtual servers (not bare-metal) support nested virtualization (/dev/kvm inside of it)? And if yes, do all of them, or which ones exactly?


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Bobby Iliev
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September 6, 2024

Hi there,

There was a similar question about this recently here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/does-digitalocean-support-kvm-or-nested-virtulzation

Currently, DigitalOcean Droplets support KVM or nested virtualization in all regions. We do not recommend nested virtualization on the platform because there is often very poor performance. Instead, containerization is normally the better option:

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/docker

Hope that this helps.

- Bobby

KFSys
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September 8, 2024

Heya,

Officially no but you can actually do it.

Having said that, why don’t you use docker for the same purpose? That is what docker is used for.

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