On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:02 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Hartmut Figge <h.fi...@gmx.de> wrote: >> Helmut Jarausch: >> >>>I'm running linux-4.12.7-gentoo with Virtualbox >>>BUT you need app-emulation/virtualbox and Co in version 5.1.26 >> >> Hm. My Gentoo is mostly stable. That would mean to add virtualbox to the >> unstable part. Hm. >> > > On Gentoo I have found it fairly normal to switch to unstable (or > unkeyworded) packages to fix issues. > > I don't want to change the subject too much, but I've fond QEMU a > decent replacement for VirtualBox. It takes some set up at first but > is fairly rewarding and easy to manage. I don't suggest using libvirt > on Gentoo, but some people do. The main difference with not using > libvirt, besides managing QEMU flags and VM startup yourself, is that > spice doesn't work (the non-libvirt spice viewer has longstanding > bugs, namely a particularly annoying one related to being unable to > exit out of fullscreen mode). Depending on your usecase setting up > remote access from within the OS of your VM might give you a better > experience - you might even try that if you continue using VirtualBox. >
Another option is KVM. I do suggest using libvirt, and found that app-emulation/virt-manager gives you a lot of the benefits of something with a pretty GUI like Virtualbox, but it is 100% FOSS underneath and you can run it all from the command line too. It is just a front-end to libvirt. There are no issues with running these VMs as services also, and I believe that you can connect to their consoles at any time with virt-manager. I can't really compare it in detail to qemu as I've barely used the latter, and mainly for emulation. Honestly, I rarely even use KVM these days as I've almost entirely moved to containers. -- Rich
