On 29 August 2016 at 19:26, James Mason <JMason@suse.com> wrote:
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On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 18:26 +0200, Adam Mizerski wrote:
Because it has: - much more user friendly UI, It doesn't get much more user-friendly than gnome-boxes. ;-)
+1 My personal opinion is that KVM is the way to go on a Linux host. It has the best commandline tooling (virsh) It has the best 'user-friendly' UI tooling (gnome-boxes) It has the best 'admin-friendly' UI tooling (virt-manager) It has the best API/integration tooling (libvirt) And, it works, its an integral part of the kernel that doesn't break every other week when the kernel or something else it depends on changes. For Tumbleweed users, I really think this debate is pointless. Virtualbox is a fragile mess, that seems to be broken more often than it works, terribly hard for Larry and others to maintain, and provides little or nothing of benefit to Tumbleweed users above or beyond the other options already available for KVM. And Virtualbox requires additional guest tooling to be installed in the VM guest, which are also fragile, but even when they work it's still an extra hassle that just isn't worth the effort compared to KVM. For Windows users wanting to run openSUSE in a VM, I used to be more forgiving for Virtualbox - until recently it was the only half-decent easily available hypervisor for Windows users. But now anyone running Windows 8 or later can run Hyper-V for free on their Windows machine. Using tools supplied and supported by Microsoft. And like KVM, the Hyper-V drivers *already in the Linux kernel* thanks to Microsoft (unlike Virtualbox which still requires separate drivers/tools in the guest to do Linux properly) So, to summarise, For Linux hosts - KVM For Windows hosts - Hyper-V For anyone who likes to hurt themselves (and/or Mac hosts because I don't know of a better option for those poor souls) - Virtualbox -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org