To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

[Michael Butash]

I've done vmware, kvm, xen, most of the flavors for bare-metal server 
and desktop-ish attempts, and for a basic desktop sort of usecase, it's 
great for me.

Vbox Good:

Seamless feature is nice as mentioned, works pretty well even in 
multi-monitor mode.  Well, it did until I got my new 4k displays, but 
another issue there.

Simple to use, very versatile for creating images and can deal with most 
major disk image formats with some work.

Mounting "remote folders" gives native access to disk partitions, where 
I share things like my filer attached at the host level, local homedir, 
/tmp, other resources that windoze vm and my native linux host can 
interchangeably work with my data.

USB pass-through lets me deal with windoze-only driver gadgets somewhat 
effectively.

Vbox Bad:

Oracle, evil empire.

It doesn't deal with vmware-based ova images very well, sometimes 
re-importing and exporting from vmware workstation demo's specifically 
works a bit better, forcing me to keep vmware workstation around (yay 
keygens).

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VMware workstation is good too if you want to pay for it (clean 
conscience and all), especially if you have esx servers about. Only time 
I use it is to tweak with a vmware image to set free/make work in 
virtualbox, so a pain to deal with demos and such that I just usually 
keygen unlock it, and comes with its own quirks that annoy me (can never 
get to work unless running gui as root) to use and/or pay for it.

-mb


On 04/19/2016 12:12 PM, Wayne D wrote:
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> On 04/19/2016 10:15 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
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>> Use virtualbox with "seamless" mode, all the windoze apps run 
>> windowed to be less annoying overall, and you can hide the disgrace
>> mostly of still using it.  :)
>>
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> 1 vote each for VirtualBox and QEMU
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> Pro's and Con's of each?