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Does DigitalOcean support KVM or nested virtulzation ?

Does DigitalOcean support KVM or nested virtualization ? I want to create a linux instance which supports KVM.

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Dikshith Shetty
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• March 3, 2021
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Hello @animeshj755

Currently, DigitalOcean Droplets support KVM or nested virtualization in all regions. We do not recommend nested virtualization on the platform because there is often very poor performance. Instead, containerization is normally the better option.

Best, Dikshith