Hardware accelarated virutalization in Qubes OS

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Hello,

I recently tried to setup android studio in a hvm and wanted to try to emulate a device to test something

but there was an error message that is not possible due to a lack of hardware virutalization acceleration

Here the error message
—start—
Your CPU does not support required features (VT-x or SVM).

Unfortunately, your computer does not support hardware accelerated virtualization.
Here are some of your options:

  1. Use a physical device for testing
  2. Develop on a Windows/OSX computer with an Intel processor that supports VT-x and NX
  3. Develop on a Linux computer that supports VT-x or SVM
  4. Use an Android Virtual Device based on an ARM system image
    (This is 10x slower than hardware accelerated virtualization)
    —end—
    now my questions would be:

Is there a possablity to use hardware virutalization acceleration inside a hvm?

and if yes is this safe or a risk?

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Qubes OS doesn’t support nested virtualization, it’s disabled because it’s not stable and introduces security concerns.

It can be enabled, but it’s not going to “just work”.

This thread has a lot of information about using nested virtualization, and highlight the stability issues.