On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 2:32:08 PM AEDT 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?
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.
As Allan noted DKMS is the ideal solution to that problem. But it's still a reason for me to avoid it. I currently have DKMS in place for zfsonlinux on some of my systems and don't want the added pain of multiple DKMS installations. I sometimes have a sudden and unexpected need to run a VM on a client's system and really want to avoid having to compile new kernel modules for that. NB this is more of an issue of personal preference and being conservative as a sysadmin than anything else, it is quite likely to just work well in practice.
It works well and great for running archaic systems, it will support back to MS-DOS-6.22 and MS-WIN-3.10. Fedora-17 (25 being the current release) is the oldest of my current instances.
Doesn't KVM/Qemu work with MS-DOS and MS-Win?
Otherwise do not run out or RAM, as swapping will stop a system.
Yes, one of the benefits of Xen in some situations is that RAM is reserved and outside the scope of the Dom0 OS. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/