Re: F15 / VirtualBox

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On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved  
>>> and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users,  
>>> I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases  
>>> run in virtualized environments without any major issues. ie.  
>>> Virtualbox.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps a dedicated team among the developers who specialize in this area.
>> 
>> I don't think there are any developers working on this area, where "this 
>> area" is Virtualbox. We don't ship Virtualbox. We don't ship a kernel 
>> that has any knowledge of Virtualbox. There's a good argument for having 
>> this be part of the QA process and requiring that we boot in the common 
>> virtualisation environments as part of the release criteria, but I don't 
>> think we can realistically suggest that our virtualisation developers 
>> (who work on code that has nothing to do with Virtualbox) be responsible 
>> for that.
> 
> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly.
> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be
> related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable.
> 
> Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change
> in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ?

Beer-free and multi-platform, like others have said.

I use VirtualBox myself on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X. Note, however,
that I have a Fedora 15 guest installed and running perfectly fine this
very minute, so I dunno what the supposed problems are...

(For Linux hosts, I do use kvm.)

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