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On 07/01/2010 03:05 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> qemu-kvm apparently expects a couple of options in /etc/make.conf, |
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I'm jumping in here only because no one else has, so far. |
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I'm the kind of nutcase who enjoys pulling and compiling the latest kernel |
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sources from Linus every morning, and then I struggle and curse while trying |
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to find the source of all the brand new bugs that just bit me. |
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So, quite obviously, I do the same with the qemu-kvm git repo at kernel.org. |
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(My only point here is that I don't build qemu-kvm from gentoo portage, so I |
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can't answer your questions about the gentoo make.conf variables.) |
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qemu-kvm does not come packaged with a cute and user-friendly gui for all the |
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confusing micro-configuration details like network bridging, and on and on, |
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ad nearly infinitum. |
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Both qemu-kvm and virtualbox are forks of the original qemu project, and |
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AFAICT they've stuck pretty closely to the original qemu command-line options |
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(numbering in the hundreds, it seems to me). |
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If you understand how to use the original qemu emulator, you are 99% of the |
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way to understanding how to use both qemu-kvm and virtualbox. |
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The big advantage of virtualbox is their creation of the "guest-additions" |
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that allow for trivially easy sharing of files on the host machine with the |
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guest machine. |
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The catch is that the virtualbox "guest additions" are custom-built for each |
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individual guest OS, and I don't know if OS/2 is one of the supported OS's |
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in virtualbox. |
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Being too lazy to dig in and learn the micro-details of qemu's networking, |
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whenever I want to share files on my gentoo host with a qemu-kvm guest, I |
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make a CD/iso image of the files and then mount the iso image on the guest |
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machine using the qemu -cdrom=/path/to/my/custom/image.iso flag. |
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I'm betting that there is a much better way of doing this, and I'm hoping |
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someone out there can educate both of us. |