{"id":431,"date":"2025-01-20T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T10:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/01\/20\/10429687-is-nested-virtualization-supported-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:21:46","slug":"10429687-is-nested-virtualization-supported-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10429687-is-nested-virtualization-supported-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Nested Virtualization supported in Hostinger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">This article explains the compatibility and availability of nested virtualization on Hostinger Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to help you understand the technical capabilities of your hosting environment.<\/p><h2 data-path-to-node=\"3\" id=\"h-virtualization-policy-on-hostinger-vps\">Virtualization policy on Hostinger VPS<\/h2><p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Nested virtualization is not supported on Hostinger VPS hosting plans.<\/p><p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Hostinger virtual private servers are optimized to provide a high-performing, secure, and reliable environment for hosting websites, databases, and applications. Advanced features like nested virtualization&mdash;running a virtual machine inside an already virtualized server&mdash;are disabled because they heavily impact resource allocation, lower system stability, and reduce overall server performance.<\/p><p data-path-to-node=\"6\">If your projects strictly require a hypervisor or nested virtual machines, you will need to utilize a local environment or a dedicated bare-metal infrastructure solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out if nested virtualization is supported on Hostinger VPS hosting plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-started-vps"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10429687-is-nested-virtualization-supported-in-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12672,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}