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KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 24, 2010 4:15 UTC (Wed) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management by drag
Parent article: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

You too are talking out of your ass. VirtualBox is _trivial_ to install. The developers offer binary packages for most distros (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva and a few others). All in all, VirtualBox is so much easier to use than KVM it's not even funny. And the funny thing is that even though KVM apparently has so many developers, VirtualBox still beats the pants out of KVM in most respects from my perspective.

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KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 24, 2010 10:01 UTC (Wed) by till (guest, #50712) [Link] (3 responses)

But afaik VirtualBox is not a good FOSS citizen imho, because e.g. their X client drivers are not integrated into Xorg upstream, but need to installed manually using a client extensions iso image, while everything needed to get the pointer not captured in a KVM guest windows is already included in Xorg. Likewise there kernel module is not heading into integration into the linux kernel and the OSE edition has still less features than the commercial one (no USB support, no RDP or VNC), which KVM both provides. I did not use the USB support recently, though.

KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 24, 2010 10:43 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

The USB support is still sort of crappy, or was at the end of last year anyway. I tried to use it to populate my mother's new iPod (which of course meant running Windows and iPlayer under KVM, because Rockbox doesn't work with new iPods). After fixing two buffer overruns from insufficiently small USB buffers, it... hung indefinitely, and qemu sprayed error messages out at me. (I never got around to reporting it as a bug on account of the unexpected arrival of Christmas: I'll try again one of these days and characterize it more precisely.)

KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Apr 3, 2010 10:31 UTC (Sat) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link]

My experience using multiple USB Bluetooth devices within a VirtualBox guest was rather pleasant. Once the correct access rights were granted from the host, it worked as expected and was very reliable.

KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Posted Mar 25, 2010 12:46 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

Likewise there kernel module is not heading into integration into the linux kernel...

Indeed, it's bad enough that Greg didn't want it in staging.