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I want to run Cuckoo inside a VMWare Workstation virtual machine together with Virtual Box (also running within a virtual machine). Is there a way to enable VT-X passthrough so Virtual Box can also leverage VT-X?

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  • I'm not talking about enabling VT-X, I'm talking about VT-X passthrough to support nested hypervisors
    – Lucas Kauffman
    Commented Aug 3, 2015 at 14:25
  • This is a sensible question with a good answer that is very hard to find anywhere else. It should be "reopened" or whatever the opposite of "closed" is. :-P
    – GollyJer
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 1:37

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This is not a duplicated question.

What OP is trying to do is something like this:

Host A(with VT-X support)->virtual machine B-->some applications need VT-X

and getting VT-X support inside B so applications -- may be another VM or emulator -- running inside B, can take advantage of vt-x.

Its called "Nested Hardware Virtualization", supported by VMWare, and can enable it by editing the .vmx file and adding a line

vhv.enable = "TRUE"

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But this does NOT work on VirtualBox "host".

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  • Awesome. Took me forever to find this info... thanks!
    – GollyJer
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 1:38

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