<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 23:37, Dave Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davej@redhat.com">davej@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved<br>
> > and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users,<br>
> > I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases<br>
> > run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie.<br>
> > Virtualbox.<br>
> ><br>
> > Perhaps a dedicated team among the developers who specialize in this area.<br>
><br>
> I don't think there are any developers working on this area, where "this<br>
> area" is Virtualbox. We don't ship Virtualbox. We don't ship a kernel<br>
> that has any knowledge of Virtualbox. There's a good argument for having<br>
> this be part of the QA process and requiring that we boot in the common<br>
> virtualisation environments as part of the release criteria, but I don't<br>
> think we can realistically suggest that our virtualisation developers<br>
> (who work on code that has nothing to do with Virtualbox) be responsible<br>
> for that.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly.<br>
Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be<br>
related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable.<br>
<br>
Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change<br>
in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know about anyone else but i found in the days before processors had hardware virtualization support (i think i had an Athlon 64 x2 at the time) VirtualBox seemed to run most things i threw at it at quite a usable speed while all the other open source options seemed to work but the performance was on par with swimming through concrete. Things may have improved since but i only use virtual machines every now and again so i just stick to what's easy.</div>
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