Running tests on Windows via Jenkins ?

[Ian Young]

On 23 Jul 2014, at 17:46, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> I don't know that we even can unless we host on a physical machine. Unless
> Intel chips have really advanced, you can't run a VM under a VM, can you?

Actually, you can now have turtles all the way down:

> With VMware Fusion 5 and later virtual machines, you have the following advanced options:
> ■
> You can run hypervisor applications such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion inside a virtual machine. For example, you can use VMware Fusion to create a virtual machine, install VMware Workstation in that virtual machine, and then use that version of Workstation to create a virtual machine.
> ■
> You can use code profiling applications such as VTune or OProfile to optimize or debug software that runs inside a virtual machine.
> The Enable hypervisor application in this virtual machine setting has some relation to the advanced virtual machine setting called Preferred virtualization engine. If you enable hypervisor applications, any selection you make for the Preferred virtualization engine setting is overridden and the setting called Intel VT-x with EPT is used.

Which is not to say that you *should*, and not that you always *can* on any given platform.

	-- Ian



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