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.