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What vm software you use on linux (thelemmy.club)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use vmware and qemu

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried using virt-manager+kvm to try some stuff out the other day but I failed to set-up some crucial things. Probably me being incompetent.

Not like virtualization is a big part of my life anyway. I just wanted to try some other distros and such without rebooting.

If I were to get serious about virtualization I'd need to build a new PC with a second GPU. Then I could stop dual-booting and do everything with VMs. But it'd only be worth it to get serious about learning how to virtualize stuff if I were to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You can single pass through but it feels more like your using one os but if that's the case wouldn't dual booting be better

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Gnome Boxes 🥲 Because im avoiding to install anything to the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You should never install anything to the kernel if possible tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You also could try virtual manager

It is all KVM so it is natively supported

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Raw qemu at the command line for the one I use on a daily basis (not recommended for the average user). VirtualBox if I need to spin something up quickly but don't expect to need to keep it past the current testing cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Virtualbox is slow and the licensing for guest addons is nasty. It is proprietary of course and if a person in a company uses it unlicensed they will send the company a massive invoice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I only need it for the very occasional testing of open-source software on Windows, using the precanned VM images provided by Microsoft (last I checked, they had none for qemu, or I would be using that instead). And if you're using software commercially, you'd better be damned sure you understand the licensing before setting up. A company of any size will have lawyers vetting that anyway.

In other words, I don't disagree with you, but those issues don't matter for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm using systemd-nspawn or Bubblewrap, depending on the scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those are container platforms not virtualization

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep. I found I don't have much use for a full-blown VM, whereas there's plenty of argument for isolating my browser from ~/.ssh/id_*.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

VMware, Virtualbox for OSes that hate VMware, and Qemu for emulating OSes that only run on obscure platforms.

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