On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 08:44 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear folks, >> >> I see that Boxes is a built in emulator and I was testing it trying to >> run ReactOS on it, but did not succeed running it. I see that there >> are qemu packages for ReactOS, and was wondering if Boxes uses qemu or >> a different technology. I know that Virtualbox also exists, but for >> Fedora 20, the rpms don't exist yet :( >> Is there a wiki, or a howto for boxes on how to do things? > > Boxes uses libvirt, qemu and KVM, the same stack used by virt-manager. > It should have Help as all GNOME apps do. I think mostly testers use > virt-manager more than Boxes, though; we've tested Boxes out a bit, but > I know I use virt-manager for my day-to-day stuff. > > VirtualBox is available from third-party repositories, it is not > packaged in Fedora because it relies on out of tree kernel modules. It's > quite popular among some users, but I know the Fedora kernel and virt > devs consider it bad code. I'm a virsh convert. I used to use mainly VirtualBox on OS X but the whole F20 cycle I've been using virsh and TigerVNC to manage F20 VM's on a remote computer running F20. VBox is OK but was a resource pig, it'd regularly bust 50% or more CPU even though the OS in the VM wasn't doing anything. Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
