Current64 - Kernel 5.8 - KVM vs VirtualBox & Vmware
by burdi01 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56CKR)
I am an avid VirtualBox user -- my use case being running/testing liveCDs such as my (private) Current64-based fork of PartedMagic.
Kernel 5.8 seems to be a problem for Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644) as well as VMware (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2774).
Therefore (and as I do from time to time) I had a look at KVM/Qemu. I found a qemu package by AlienBob (http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/) as well as one by Conraid (http://slack.conraid.net/repository/...are64-current/). AlienBob has no packages for libvirt or virt-manager, but Conraid has.
Defining/running a simple VM under AlienBob's qemu together with Conraid's libvirt and virt-manager gave a lot of "hardware" problems. Doing so with Conraid's qemu, libvirt and virt-manager was more successful (after a lot of failures - I found things to be less user-friendly than I am used to). Booting my ISO under KVM/Qemu takes longer than under VirtualBox (40 vs 23 seconds). Afterwards both implementations seem to perform comparably.
Google tells me that Gnome Boxes is the next thing after virt-manager. Alas I could not find a package or slackbuild to test things.
Anyone willing to share his/her experiences?
:D
Kernel 5.8 seems to be a problem for Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644) as well as VMware (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2774).
Therefore (and as I do from time to time) I had a look at KVM/Qemu. I found a qemu package by AlienBob (http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/) as well as one by Conraid (http://slack.conraid.net/repository/...are64-current/). AlienBob has no packages for libvirt or virt-manager, but Conraid has.
Defining/running a simple VM under AlienBob's qemu together with Conraid's libvirt and virt-manager gave a lot of "hardware" problems. Doing so with Conraid's qemu, libvirt and virt-manager was more successful (after a lot of failures - I found things to be less user-friendly than I am used to). Booting my ISO under KVM/Qemu takes longer than under VirtualBox (40 vs 23 seconds). Afterwards both implementations seem to perform comparably.
Google tells me that Gnome Boxes is the next thing after virt-manager. Alas I could not find a package or slackbuild to test things.
Anyone willing to share his/her experiences?
:D