Yes I would still recommend VB for what it is good for: 1) running VM on both Linux and Windows 2) Windows emulation 3) ease of use
Virtual Box is a VERY good solution and I do like it now more then VMware ( Licensing not technical ) But if your developing Linux stuff on a Linux box, I found that KVM is a better fit. But KVM big down side is lack of good documentation making the adoption harder. VB has a nice point and click interface making doc less necessary. Joe On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Saturday, May 29, 2010, Sean Dague wrote: > ... > > To be fair, all of the approaches require kernel modules. The kvm > > ones are open source and upstream, the others aren't. > > The VirtualBox kernel module sources are open source as well (I'm > building them when I make custom kernels) -- it's just harder to tell > they're open because the VirtualBox sources use a mixture of licenses: > GPLv2, MPL, BSD, LGPL v2.1. Some files are dual-licensed and also > covered under CDDL. > > > Because they all use kernel modules to assist various parts of > > virtualization, they are typically mutually exclusive on a single > > box. The fact that kvm is tested as part of the distro, helps > > eliminate bugs. > > Likewise because the VirtualBox modules haven't been incorporated > upstream into the Linux kernel itself, on at least one occasion I've > run into an issue where Linux kernel changes caused some minor > VirtualBox breakage (bridged networking). > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba >
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