boazg wrote: > have you tried virtualbox? it's GPL, and i've had some > good experience with it. > As a matter of fact, I didn't even consider it before you suggested it. So I gave it a try. I didn't let the company which is behind the project turn me down. Neither was I stopped by the fact that the package which is marked for Fedora 12 had failed dependencies, which weren't resolved even by "yum localinstall" (I grabbed the libraries manually, and learned something about installing libraries on a 64 bit machine [1]).
I also skipped the annoying registration form. The thing is, that when I finally got the VirtualBox to run, and configured a trial machine to boot with Knoppix, I was told that the virtual machine failed to start, because it couldn't run in VMX root mode. It suggested to do pretty nasty things, such as to remove KVM from the kernel (recompile?) and REBOOT (they said the R-word). At this point, I marked a big X on Virtualbox. Despite all I said about its shortcomings, I like KVM. But I went on to check it, just for the heck of it. It turned out that they were too dramatic. All that was really necessary was "rmmod kvm_intel kvm" and Virtualbox was ready to go. Virtualbox didn't accept just a dd-copied image as a disk image, so I copied the image into /dev/hda (within a virtual Knoppix) through netcat. (Note to self: Getting used to write to /dev/hda is not a good idea...). Booting from this image, the Windows bootloader got stuck at an early stage, so I gave this up. Instead, I went for installing XP from scratch on the virtual machine. I have to admit, that the installation went very fast (compared with QEMU/KVM). The system went up with no problems, and I managed to connect my Canon EOS camera, which clearly indicates that USB 2.0 works properly (even though I got the feeling something went quirky with the camera). As for my hardware programming cable, Virtualbox put it on the list of USB devices possible to attach, but greyed it out so I couldn't pick it. It was detected as an "unknown device" so maybe that's why. This way or another, no programming cable for me. The graphical interface was pretty fast with no apparent paravirtual drivers installed and the mouse interface feels OK. So it looks like VirtualBox is yet another clone, in the same company's family of wannabe projects, like Openoffice and Eclipse. The interface is good, it looks good, but somehow misses the crucial points. Sounds familiar, I have to say. My bottom line for this tool: Almost did the job, doesn't allow me to run KVM in parallel. It's a no. But thanks for suggesting it, Boaz. Eli [1] http://billauer.co.il/blog/2010/01/installing-so-libraries-on-a-64-bit-fedora-with-yum/ -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux