Running Vagrant Inside VMWare VM
I realize this is essentially OSCeption (Operating System Inception), but I think it might make the most sense for me (please tell me if there's a better option, this seems really awful).
Here's the situation: I have a windows 8 machine. I like it - it works great for everything but development. For development, I've been using a VMWare virtual machine running Ubuntu. I've dabbled with using Cygwin, but it just didn't feel right.
I'm now joining a project where they've been using Vagrant to manage development environments so I need to be able to use Vagrant. But, from what I've seen, Vagrant is mainly used to run code within a consistent environment, but not necessarily to write it. And if I wanted to write code by SSH'ing into my vagrant boxes, then I would have to re-configure my preferences like my .vimrc file and what not for every machine.
Does it then make sense to install Vagrant within my Ubuntu VirtualMachine? I feel like at some point VMs within VMs will get out of hand and cause problems. Is there any better way to do this?
Edit: So I tried it out - as I expected I hit some errors. When I try and boot the machine, I get the following error message:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine vagranttest_1371583212.
VT-x is not available. (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: Console
Interface: IConsole {db7ab4ca-2a3f-4183-9243-c1208da92392}
Looks like my vmware virtual machine can't run another virtual machine. Any ideas on the best way to go about doing this?
Answer
I've run into the same issue today. The solution is quite simple.
- Power off vmware vitrual machine.
- Go to "edit virtual machine settings"
- Go to processors. There are three checkboxes there.
- Check second checkbox (enable VT-x/AMD-V)
- Power on machine.
After this virtualbox should work inside vmware.