On Friday 27 Aug 2010 15:41:23 Jim Price wrote: > I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick > and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the > recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge, > I feel happy I could switch to kvm without losing very much, if > anything. There is a gui for creating and managing VMs (virt-manager), > and I tend to want to know how to do everything I do in Virtualbox from > the command line anyway so it can be automated if necessary. I thought > it was going to be a big job to get it working, but all I had to do in > Lucid was install a few packages, add a few lines to the network config > and remove Virtualbox.
I run Virtualbox on the desktop, and manage three KVM servers running 19 VMs. I've been doing this since Hardy. If you want an easy solution for virtual machines on a desktop, especially VMs with a GUI, use Virtualbox. If you want a headless solution, KVM is fine. But it is NOT as easy to use as Virtualbox, nor does its GUI work as well. There is no fair comparison between virt- manager and the Virtualbox GUI. Regards, Tyler -- "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
