On 08/29/2016 10:33 PM, Mathias Homann wrote:
Hi,
maybe it's just not obvious to me, but why would someone prefer virtualbox over the native KVM virtualisation?
...ok, there is the option of using the same VM on linux, windows and Mac OS, bus aside from that?
cheers Mathias
I use VM's heavily for testing various desktops I did decide to try and switch and use KVM for everything 3-4 months back which was fine until I needed to test something in KDE and it wouldn't start due to graphics related issues, I switched back to Virtual Box and KDE booted fine. If i could live in enlightenment for most of my time then i'd be fine with kvm because enlightenment has a great software render, however half the time when I fire up a VM its because I want to test something in another desktop without having to logout. Another reason is USB support, in my previous job I handed a large range of pretty obscure USB devices through to my VM and it just worked (Often windows guest), I don't know if its possible to get them working with KVM I never tried. The final thing and probably most important to a lot of people Virtual Box is insanely easy to configure and use far more so then KVM even with yasts virtual machine manager. Having written this I realise its probably offtopic for this list but it keeps coming up. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B