Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-06 Thread Balasankar C
Of course, you can choose where to store the disk image. After firing up virt-manager, go to Edit Connection Details Storage There, you can add directories as storage pools. Then, while creating a VM, choose that pool from the list and create a new volume (vdi or vmdk etc) inside it. PS :

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-06 Thread Sasi Kumar
On 6 June 2015 at 12:09, Balasankar C balasank...@autistici.org wrote: Of course, you can choose where to store the disk image. After firing up virt-manager, go to Edit Connection Details Storage There, you can add directories as storage pools. Then, while creating a VM, choose that pool

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-06 Thread Kevin Martin Jose
In terms of ease-of-use, I guess KVM is indeed the less desirable option. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2015 at 14:58, Kevin Martin youcancallmeke...@gmail.com wrote: I've somewhere read that kvm offers better performance than virtualbox. I

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-06 Thread Kevin Martin
I've somewhere read that kvm offers better performance than virtualbox. I verified this to be true 2 years back. But now somebody told me virtualbox caught-up with KVM in terms of performance, almost. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On 6 June 2015 at 12:09,

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Martin
Yes you can choose where the guest disk image goes. The image file gets saved as .vdi or something. The good thing about it is that once you have worked on that guest OS for sometime, you can copy the corresponding .vdi file and use it on another computer running virtualbox to continue your

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-05 Thread Sasi Kumar
On 5 June 2015 at 09:24, Pirate Praveen prav...@onenetbeyond.org wrote: Those are the features supported by your processor. It just means vmx or hardware virtualization is a supported feature. Other values are not relevant for us. grep is command to search for a particular word in a text

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-04 Thread Pirate Praveen
Those are the features supported by your processor. It just means vmx or hardware virtualization is a supported feature. Other values are not relevant for us. grep is command to search for a particular word in a text file. If processor does not support hardware virtualization then you will get an

[fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-04 Thread Danial José
*Hi,* I am thinking of installing VirtualBox on my laptop. For best experience you need to enable hardware visualization support in BIOS. Regards, Danial José On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 12:57:08 PM UTC+5:30, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: Dear friends, I am thinking of installing VirtualBox on

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-04 Thread Sasi Kumar
On 4 June 2015 at 13:10, Danial José danialj...@gmail.com wrote: *Hi,* I am thinking of installing VirtualBox on my laptop. For best experience you need to enable hardware visualization support in BIOS. Thank you. But please correct me if I am wrong, I think that is required for kvm and

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-04 Thread Pirate Praveen
If you have a recent laptop, its likely to have hardware virtualization support and you just need to enable it in the BIOS. Rungrep vmx proccpuinfofor Intelgrep svm proccpuinfofor amd.To see if the processor supports hardware virtualization. If it supports hardware virtualization KVM would be

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Virtualisation

2015-06-04 Thread Manoj K
In most cases, the default settings will be fine; VirtualBox will have picked sensible defaults depending on the operating system that you selected when you created the virtual machine. In certain situations, however, you may want to change these preconfigured defaults.

[fsug-tvm] Re: virtualisation in linux

2009-05-28 Thread Nikhil Nair
I vote for virtual box as well - http://www.virtualbox.org/ On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Syam sya...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using Sun VirtualBox on Fedora / RHEL 5 for running MS DOS 6.22 and customized RHEL installations. No issues yet. It gives good performance, and doesn't need a

[fsug-tvm] Re: virtualisation in linux

2009-05-27 Thread Sabeer MZ
I use vmware-server from vmware . On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Aneesh A aneesh...@gmail.com wrote: I use Virtual Box On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM, vibi sreenivasan vibisreeniva...@gmail.com wrote: hi, qemu can be used for full virualization. it supports many cpu arch. kvm

[fsug-tvm] Re: virtualisation in linux

2009-05-27 Thread Syam
I've been using Sun VirtualBox on Fedora / RHEL 5 for running MS DOS 6.22 and customized RHEL installations. No issues yet. It gives good performance, and doesn't need a separate kernel running (like xen). VirtualBox does requires a kernel module, but that will be automatically generated by the

[fsug-tvm] Re: virtualisation in linux

2009-05-26 Thread vibi sreenivasan
hi, qemu can be used for full virualization. it supports many cpu arch. kvm with qemu front end can be used if you are having a recently bought cpu. kvm supports only x86 arch. regards vibi sreenivasan On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Harish CM cmha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Anybody