Running KVM on a VM in OCI

First we create a VM host. Note that this is a standard VM with no special requirement to run a nested hypervisor

The VM is provisioned

The VM is now available

Here we can set up a Console Connection

We connect to the console via a proxy ssh connection through the hypervisor.

There are both Linux and windows options to get the connection

On the VM we have brought up we have installed QEMU GUI in order to create additional VMs

We will install the guest image using a local ISO file

We can also upload an existing image in vmdk or qcow2 format.

Here we are using an Oracle Linux ISO

Adding resources CPU ram and local disk

Here is my KVM guest setup in my KVM host

Ensure that Iibvirtd service runs by default. Virt-manager is the GUI we are using

So we can see a KVM guest running in our 1 OCPU vm.