Is it possible to run Xen in a VirtualBox VM?

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:25:21PM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried running Xen in a VirtualBox guest and it errors in the boot
> process giving this error:
> 
> xenoprof: Initialization failed. Intel processor family 6 model 60 is
> not supported.
> Dom0 has maximum 600 PIRQs
> 
> ***********************
> Panic on cpu 0:
> Error creating domain 0
> ***********************
> 
> So, is it even possible to run Xen in a VM? If it is, how can I fix
> this problem?

It's likely possible to run Xen + Linux Dom0 inside of VirtualBox, but
it's almost certainly not possible to run Xen + FreeBSD inside of
VirtualBox because it would require an emulated IOMMU, which I don't
think VirtualBox provides.

Roger.