F15 / VirtualBox

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly.
> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be
> related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable.
> 
> Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change
> in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ?

VirtualBox has a nice GUI which compares well with old versions of
virt-manager.

However virt-manager has come a very long way since and I'd urge
people to try up-to-date versions.  New Fedora comes with it as
standard, or you can do:

  # yum install virt-manager

to install everything required (including libvirt and KVM bits).

The other feature is USB passthrough.  (KVM can do this, but IIRC it
only works for USB 1.1 devices and it's not integrated into the UI).

Rich.

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