On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > 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 ? For me, I installed VB to check (then) Sun's Fishworks emulator, which was distributed as virtualbox image. Afterwards I stayed because: - my computer did not have VT-x/SVM (it's not relevant now, most computer have) - VB has 3D accell support for guest. Enough to test for example Ubuntu Unity, and I believe gnome-shell also. This is BIG advantage. - virt-manager storage management is IMO a mess. I created LVM LV for new virtual-machine, then went to virt-manager to add this as raw file and got lost. I know that I want raw file, but the gui is talking about raw files separately from LVM pools. - bridged networking works with standard F15 install. With virt-manager one need to disable NetworkManager. - USB passthrough works. - changing virtual CD media is easy and reliable - VB provides yum repos VirtualBox has disadvantages: - it doesn't use kvm-intel for hardware virtualisation. I cannot run KVM and VB at the same time. - it's memory deduplication reimplements what already in-kernel (for the sake of cross platform) -- Tomasz Torcz "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx wagon filled with backup tapes." -- Jim Gray -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
