On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. > > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need.
I've heard you should stay away from virtualbox, due to instability from their kernel modules. Apart from that, make sure your kernel has kvm support enabled. >From there, you can either try playing with Xen (I've got my Gentoo desktop as my dom0), libvirt, qemu-kvm or vmware-workstation. I haven't tried any of the latter three on Gentoo, and I haven't tried vmware on Linux at *all*. I can't make a good recommendation for which would suit you best. Perhaps someone else could make a suggestion or two. -- :wq
