ubuntu and kvm

[Amy Nielsen]

I got so fed up that I put crunch bang on here instead, and now I can run
my vm's with both virtual box and vmware.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:

> I ditched the buntus also about 2 years ago.  Had enough, and Unity just
> sucks.  Not loving what Gnome has been doing lately to Gnome Shell either.
> So my latest is Arch, with KDE5 Plasma... KDE started to annoy me, but the
> activities desktops and yaquake are really starting to make me so much more
> productive.
>
> But, back to the VMs...
>
> My company issued me a Windows7 desktop, and in a moment of insanity...
> gave me admin rights.   I used to run Arch in a VM to do development work
> in, then ssh'd to the servers.  I discovered MobaXTerm, and it made the
> entire experience tolerable.
>
> Eventually, they issued me a Windows7 VM, and the Windows on my desktop
> just became redundant.  So I pushed it to the side and installed Arch as
> the primary booting OS.  For virtualizing Linux processes (i.e. to try out
> something without polluting my day to day machine) I use Docker
> Containers.  To run Windows processes, I have dedicated one of my four
> desktops, on my default activity to Windows.  It runs that VM instance IT
> set up for me, full screen using rdesktop and SeamlessRDP.  PERFECT!  Now
> my regular desktop, and VM, are seamlessly integrated.
>
> The most fun was when our desktop admin asked me one day to pull something
> up on my desktop... I knew that meant in Windows, which is on desktop 1,
> and I was on Desktop 4.  CTRL->ALT->LEFT->UP and snap, I had the desktop
> up... the screens flipped so quickly our a desktop admin almost got dizzy.
> I think he is now afraid of my desktop... ha ha ha ha
>
> Good Luck, but to the OP, I would ditch Ubuntu until they get their s
> together.
>
> Kevin
> On May 14, 2015 1:33 PM, "Nathan England" <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Your experience generally sums up every attempt I've made at making
>> things work with any of the *buntu versions. I have spent enough time to
>> get really frustrated with it and eventually go to something else.
>>
>> For a short time I was concerned because Fedora was too unstable with
>> systemd, ubuntu just sucks for everything beyond running from a live disc
>> (and even that half the time), and openSuSE while awesome would suddenly
>> crap out after a few reboots. Never really figured that one out and was
>> really disappointed.
>>
>> Finally with Fedora 21 things are stable again. F20 got better later in
>> its life.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-05-13 17:31, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the comments from Stephen and James.
>>>
>>> This has unfortunately been a very frustrating experience, having
>>> tried VirtualBox, KVM, and now even VMware Workstation, just try to
>>> get something working, and each is fubar for some reason under ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Virtualbox always works well, but for some reason won't import the
>>> disk (some kind of uuid issue reading the disk image).
>>> KVM packages just seem broken under ubuntu, as does apparmor (as usual).
>>> VMware Workstation/Player 11 does nothing but give me "permission
>>> denied" when trying to make a vm as a user, then as root tells me
>>> there is no space left with 40gb in the volume.
>>>
>>> I haven't seen this many f'd up package or app installs under ubuntu
>>> in a while, though I expect it of VMware - they can't make linux
>>> clients to save their life.  KVM I was surprised to see it's as much a
>>> basketcase under ubuntu as it was.  Seems if people use it, they do so
>>> with the rh variants, for a reason.
>>>
>>> All I wanted was a stupid F5 load-balancer virtual appliance to run to
>>> lab, instead 3 days wasted.  Ugh.
>>>
>>> Thanks again all.
>>>
>>> -mb
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