On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:10 -0500 Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > > > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with > > virtual machines on my Gentoo. > > > > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly > > in directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. > > > > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be > > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. > > I've heard you should stay away from virtualbox, due to instability > from their kernel modules. I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other out-of-tree modules. Yes, they break sometimes. So does VMWare. So did ath network cards long ago - that's how life works. Here it runs on stable with zero issues about kernel versions for 6 months+, it's probably reasonable to assume that bleeding edge kernels would of course not build occasionally. But does one really want to run VMs on the latest bleeding edge kernel? I don't. What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. With VMWare you get player for free but need paying version to get more functionality. It's been a long time since I payed with Xen so I can't really comment on that product. qemu-kvm would appeal to the hard-core geek, something that Alan Mac is at least in part > > Apart from that, make sure your kernel has kvm support enabled. > > From there, you can either try playing with Xen (I've got my Gentoo > desktop as my dom0), libvirt, qemu-kvm or vmware-workstation. I > haven't tried any of the latter three on Gentoo, and I haven't tried > vmware on Linux at *all*. > > I can't make a good recommendation for which would suit you best. > Perhaps someone else could make a suggestion or two. > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
