Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

[Randolph Maaßen]

2013/7/30 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running a Windows 7 (professional)guest  with Virtualbox on my
> GenToo system for some years.
> But recently I have a broken network either due to Virtualbox or due to some
> (automatic) Windows updates.
>
> The situation is more than strange.
>
> Sometime using a backed up Virtualbox image the network seems to work but
> only for
> a very short time (some minutes?)
>
> Windows error analyzing tools don't see any network problems but it does not
> work.
>
> Trying ping -n 100 <IP>  only a few packets come back but with a large delay
> (40-50 times
> larger delay compared to ping on the GenToo host)
>
> I've tried the most recent Virtualbox 4.2.16 as well the oldest one (in the
> tree) which is 4.1.26
>
> So probably it looks best to me to change to a different (free) VM.
> What do you recommend?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut

Hi,

I'm using qemu-kvm for hoisting a Windows 7, but always typing the
long commandline is anoying, so I wrote a little script to start the
VM. I recently switched to libvirt and virt-manager, which do the
commandline work for me, and creatting new VMs or starting them is
quiet easy. This system also supports running the VM in background, if
this is important to you. It needs a couple of kernel modules to work,
but emerge will promt to you what it needs.

I'm not on my gentoo machine at the moment, so I can't provide you
details on USE-flags, but I can say I have the QUEM_TAGET varables set
to i386, x86_64

HTH

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen