Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > > Please do not treat this as flame or sth. > I used Virtualbox so far on my desktop box. > Virtual machines are generally Windows (10,8.1,7, and ever ancient NT 4.0 > :) ) > I have been wondering for some time on migration to qemu. > I tried to run test windows 8.1 guest and it looks promising. > What I want: > 1. isolated network for guests - no problem, already configured. > 2. sharing folders between host and guest - in virtualbox guest > additions has such functionality, but it is ok to me use samba on host > and mount volumes from guest. > 3. shared clipboard - after installing client additions it worked. > > Things I couldn't do: keystrokes and full screen with keys. > In virtualbox I am used to turn off machine by pressing "right_ctrl+H", show > options > by 'right_ctrl+Home', and so on, but I do not found how in virt-manager some > key > combination make view full-screen or send shutdown signal to guest. > Is it even possible?
Sending a shutdown signal: yes, but it's client-dependent. In virt-viewer it's a menu option. Making it full-screen: two different ways. One is to set your virt-viewer client to full screen; the other is to dedicate a graphics adapter to your virtual machine and pass it through. > Another question is graphics performance. Does anybody test/compare it in > normal > daily desktop use? I have been told that pass-through graphics are quite close to full native speed, and enable modern 3D games. Non-passthrough is generally good enough for the use of Youtube in a browser in Windows in a VM. -dsr-
