Most things are easy once one knows how. The tricky part is figuring out how in the first place. ![:mrgreen:]( "Mr. Green")
Doesn't help that so many tutorials and articles about KVM/QEMU are wrong and/or obsolete. Do you have any idea how disheartening it is to run a recommended command string, only to get back a no-can-do error from apt? Or how obscure the procedure to add a storage location for VM files? (By contrast, in VBox, it's the very first setting in Preferences.) Yeah, I figured it out, but it's not obvious. Likewise with how to boot a live session after installation (needed for system repair and/or dual boot), how to scale the VM desktop to window, snapshots, shared folders, etc.
Having gotten pretty far along on the learning curve, I'll repeat my earlier advice. If one is just starting out with virtualization, it's probably better in the long run to learn KVM/QEMU rather than VirtualBox. Just understand, as with most things Linux, you've got some work to do. Conversely, if you value ease of use over performance, or want a solution which works in Windows also, you might want to go with VBox.
Doesn't help that so many tutorials and articles about KVM/QEMU are wrong and/or obsolete. Do you have any idea how disheartening it is to run a recommended command string, only to get back a no-can-do error from apt? Or how obscure the procedure to add a storage location for VM files? (By contrast, in VBox, it's the very first setting in Preferences.) Yeah, I figured it out, but it's not obvious. Likewise with how to boot a live session after installation (needed for system repair and/or dual boot), how to scale the VM desktop to window, snapshots, shared folders, etc.
Having gotten pretty far along on the learning curve, I'll repeat my earlier advice. If one is just starting out with virtualization, it's probably better in the long run to learn KVM/QEMU rather than VirtualBox. Just understand, as with most things Linux, you've got some work to do. Conversely, if you value ease of use over performance, or want a solution which works in Windows also, you might want to go with VBox.
Statistics: Posted by pbear — 2024-03-22 19:06