nested-virtualization.md

Nested Virtualization

Enable nested virtualization to run VMs inside GCE instances via the enableNestedVirtualization field. This allows running container sandboxes, KVM, QEMU, or other hypervisors inside the instance. Requires Intel Haswell or later CPU platforms.

---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: GCPMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: mygcpmachinetemplate
  namespace: mynamespace
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      instanceType: n2-standard-8
      enableNestedVirtualization: true

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview

NOTE: Nested virtualization must be enabled at instance creation time and cannot be changed after the instance is created.