Nested Virtualization on GCP
Goal is to install windows on google cloud platform in trial period.
Create ubuntu instance with N2 machine type (4vCPU, 2 Core, 16 GB memry) and do not boot up. Just stop it after creating instance.
Open gcloud terminal and run below command (Which make image copy of vm with VMX enabled)
gcloud compute images create nested-ubuntu-image \
--source-disk=ubuntu --source-disk-zone=us-west4-b \
--licenses="https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/vm-options/global/licenses/enable-vmx"
Now delete the vm and create new one with same configuration
Insted of selecting the os select import and select the exporetd image file.
Run below command to check if VMX is enabled or not
grep -cw vmx /proc/cpuinfo
Download the zip
curl -o src-cloud.zip https://github.com/m0ns7er/Nested-Virtualization/blob/main/src-cloud.zip
Update the default repository and install unzip.
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install unzip
unzip src-cloud and install required packages.
unzip src-cloud.zip
cd src-cloud/
./install.sh
Install VNC server and gnome-core packages.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
sudo apt-get install gnome-core
Start VNCServer
vncserver -localhost no