Virtualization things.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Till Maas wrote:
> On Di Juli 10 2007, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
>> VirtualBox is based on QEMU, right?  Can you tell us what features it
>> has that makes it distinctive?  (I mean in the free version, not
>> interested in proprietary features).
> 
> it uses Code from QEMU but afaik they use their own approach to 
> virtualization, which may be faster. Also currently the GUI works a lot 
> better than virt-manager for me. It will become more interesting, when it 
> supports a snapshot tree and cloning. Currently it supports only linear 
> snapshots. Also, you can run vmware Images directly with the current version, 
> but maybe QEMU can this, too. If you want to try it, I can provide you a 
> working srpm for the current version.

Is this all in the free version?

> There are also two big disadvantages in VirtualBox, imho. One is they use 
> strange build system, that has no stable releases. And the other is, that 
> there seems to be not "install" target to install it properly in a system.
> 
>> There's a project to abstract away the differences between
>> virtualisation technologies so that, for example, the same command line
>> and graphical tools can be used to manage Xen, QEMU, KVM (so far, others
>> coming later).
>>
>> Website: http://libvirt.org/
>> Mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
>> Graphical tool: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/
> 
> The idea is imho great, but for me with qemu it does not work properly.

I'd really like to help out here.  Did you get any error messages?

Rich.

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