On 29/11/16 14:32, Steve Roylance via luv-main wrote:
On 29/11/16 11:37, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
Has anyone used Virtualbox? What's it like?
hi
I use VB extensively and usually have at least one client open being an Ubuntu instance on a Fedora-23 system.
It does have requirement to reinstall VB after a kernel upgrade, but on Fedora that is one command "dnf reinstall Virt...rpm" so it is not an impediment. I do use the rpms from the VirtualBox site and not those built by third parties "RPMFusion" which automates even this one extra command.
Not sure about this reinstalling of VB - I have dkms installed, and the new kernel modules are built automatically as part of the kernel install. That's all I need to do. It can take a little extra time added to the kernel install, but that only happens once every three weeks or so :-) More of a pain is updating VirtualBox itself - you really do need the extension pack, but it needs to be explicitly installed. And then you need to boot up each of the VM's to run this update on their inside. I've turned off auto-updating for VBox just so it happens at _my_ convenience.