Re: [gentoo-hardened] virtualization

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 12/22/2012 09:37 AM, Alex Efros wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Ok, let's forget about VMware/VirtualBox, 3D acceleration, MacOSX…
>
> I want all of this, but, hell, I can probably live without it.
>
> Is there exists __ANY__ way to run at least Win7 on 64-bit hardened gentoo
> with good enough speed for comfortable use (on fast enough modern system:
> Core i7 @ 4.6GHz + GeForce GTX 560 Ti using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers)?
>
> Actually, do programmers use hardened gentoo at all? I'm a programmer, and
> I need to test my code. And this mean I need to test portability issues
> too. So, I need to be able to run both 32- and 64-bit versions of
> different OS. How you guys live without that since about 2.6.39 (when
> virtualization support was broken in hardened)?
>

Use KVM, it works well enough. The libvirt and virt-manager stuff was
more trouble than it was worth the last time I tried, but you can create
simple shell scripts to launch your VMs. For example,

  $ cat bin/xp32
  #!/bin/bash
  qemu-kvm       \
    -m 2048      \
    -localtime   \
    -daemonize   \
    -sdl         \
    -k en-us     \
    -soundhw all \
    -hda $1

I also have, running my school copies of Mathematica et. al,

  $ cat bin/math
  #!/bin/bash
  qemu-kvm       \
    -m 3192      \
    -cpu kvm64   \
    -smp 2       \
    -sdl         \
    -daemonize   \
    -k en-us     \
    -drive file=/mnt/storage/kvm/math.img,media=disk,index=0,if=virtio