F15 / VirtualBox

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 06/09/2011 04:37 PM, 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 ?

I moved from qemu to VMWare to VirtualBox because it became the easiest 
to use. I wanted to try Xen at the time but the combination of closed 
graphics, dual screens and all that made it not useful for me.

It supported usb passthru, and graphics accel. Recently I tried whatever 
comes with fedora and found it horrendously slower. I could have 
installed Fedora in a VirtualBox VM 3-4 times from scratch before that 
VM finished. I removed the packages and haven't tried for awhile.

It also had a very active development team. Releases and updates were 
many and not far between so it felt 'alive', whereas VMWare didn't 
(though it could have changed).

Those are probably not all the reasons I chose it back in the day, but 
now that I'm here I've continued to use it. The one trial with whatever 
Fedora uses was unsatisfactory so I haven't switched. Also I can't 
remember if the virtual system fedora provided could host windows?? 
Maybe I'm confusing Xen with whatever is in use now. Like I said I made 
the switch and haven't seen much reason to switch again.

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