2007/10/16, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jeffrey Parke schrieb: > > no my cpu is an amd athlon xp 2400+ so i think that might be a bit old. > > I am just wanting a vm like virtualbox but using gtk instead of qt. > > Virtualbox (not the opensource edition, the binary one) is the best > combination of a good virtualizer and an easy setup. If your "toolkit > racism" is more important than the quality of the software, then I can't > help.
Virtualbox has SDL, framabuffer and headless interfaces too. One small problem with Virtualbox is ugly look of Qt on Gtk-only environment. I've tried polymer - Qt interface looks more rounded, but I cannot get the same colour scheme (if someone can help with this - please let me know). Installing something like qt-curve requires kdelibs. Other than that - I like Virtualbox. Installation is much simpler, it doesn't depend on hardcoded init.d paths (compare with /etc/vmware/init.d/rcX.d). The whole architecture is cleaner and elegant (IMO). Additions are clean and simple too (though VMware now open-sourced their additions so they might get better as well). VMware's installer is similar to other commercial application's installers - hardcoded paths, large perl scripts doing cryptic things etc. The good thing is that Virtualbox is free GPLed software, and you can use SVN builds with latest bugfixes and new features (e.g. Xorg 7.3 support in additions). This allows distribute it in binary packages which is good for users. What Virtuabox lacks comparing to VMware Workstation: * paravirtualization support (based on VMI or raw paravirt_ops) - should speed-up Arch in Virtualbox even more * a little more advanced networking (like VMware Teams) and more flexible network configuration * BIOS with configuration interface and separate time keeping with time not reset during reboot (there is config opion in ini file for time shift but it's uncomfortable to work with) - useful for testing our installer - I used VMware because of this to track down (in)famous time-related bugs. * SCSI HDD emulation - useful for testing our installer * piix4-compatible IDE controller - for PATA drivers - should be a non-issue with newer ata_piix driver I hope first two will get implemented in not so distant future. Besides, they are working on accelerated OpenGL support! :-) > > Xen is complicated, you need a specific kernel for both the Host and > Guest and the hypervisor, so the setup will be work. /me nods > > Qemu is trouble and many things just don't work. kqemu even seems to > slow it down in some cases. There is also kvm, but it is not yet mature enought (IMO). Would be great if there will be unification of qemu-kvm+qemu and kvm+kqemu+qemu-lite in future. It all depends on what type of virtualization do you need - full virtualization, paravirtualization, OS-level virtualization. For some things UML and lguest are good too. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
