Virtualbox is good, but I dislike having to always recompile a kernel module every time a new kernel is released. Yes there is DKMS, but it's not as good as KVM. I use it to run Windows on my Ubuntu, and it is the best I've found for emulating Windows, with hotplugging of USB, shared folders etc.

Why don't you just convert the VMDK/VDI they provide to qcow2/RAW, and import it into KVM, instead of using the other formats?

http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/convert-images.html

Sean

On 29 November 2016 at 11:37, Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox

Has anyone used Virtualbox?  What's it like?

It seems popular, osboxes.org seems to only have VMWare and Virtualbox image
files.  Apparently Qemu (and presumably KVM) support both those image types,
is there any benefit of one over the other?

My main aim at the moment is to get a Fedora VM going to see if they solved a
bug I encountered in Debian/Unstable and if so copy their fix.  One of the
significant benefits of free software.

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