On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:29:16PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > Part of the problem is comparing a mixture of apples and oranges. > you cannot run a virtual machine using KVM on its own. > KVM is a set of kernel API's and modules that make use of the underlying CPU > hardware. > > Virtualbox is a complete product that contains its own API's and a bunch of > tools to provide a user interface. > > Virtualbox is better compared with things like VMware or virtual-manager or > proxmox.
virtualbox is like vmware. A complete system. proxmox is just a UI on top of kvm and lxc. Virtual-manager is a UI layer on top of a lot of things (kvm, qemu, etc). > QEMU is a middle wear tool that has been forked by several products to > provide hardware emulation but is generally not enough to provide all the > features of something like virtualbox or virtual-manager. > You can use QEMU to roll your own virtual systems but you then need to > manage most of the scaffolding on your own. Yes qemu has tons of options and features, but not a friendly UI, and certainly not friendly defaults. > Its kind of like comparing gnome or KDE to the x-server. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
