The first step in the process is to create the Hyper-V VM that will act as a Windows 10 host. Upon doing so, shut the VM down, then check the VM version.

Without nested virtualization, you’ll either need multiple systems for bare-metal configurations or deal with the headaches of managing a host of partitions for each Type-1 hypervisor.

Microsoft announced support for VMs in Azure (running on Windows Server 2016) that support nested virtualization back at Build 2017 and recently provided more details. It'll be interesting to see the ...

This means you can enable Nested Virtualization only if your CPU supports hardware-assisted virtualization. The hardware-assisted virtualization is called VT-x for Intel and AMD-V for AMD.

Basically you need the 'host' virtual machine to pass the VLAN tags created in the nested VMs up to the switch, I would assume.

Running another virtual machine within another Azure virtual machine opens up more code-testing options for Microsoft's cloud customers.

Once the package is installed, the virtual machine with the nested ESXi host can run VMware Tools and will therefore function like any other normal virtual machine.

Ravello's InceptionSX nested virtualization solution brings VMware ESXi to Amazon's Web Service and to Google Cloud.