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Good evening, Felix! |
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: |
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> Hi Alan, |
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> Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with |
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> > virtual machines on my Gentoo. |
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> > I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in |
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> > directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. |
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> Virtual machines are all in /usr/portage/app-emulation, not in virtual |
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> (that is for virtual packages). |
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> > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be |
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> > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. |
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> VirtualBox is quite easy for beginners, but requires external kernel |
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> modules and requires a GUI (what you most probably want anyway). |
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> KVM (maybe with virt-manager as a GUI) is quite powerful for desktop |
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> virtualization, but requires processor support (but it is available on |
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> all recent (Core2 oder newer) non-Atom CPUs by Intel and AFAIK all |
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> recent AMD CPUs) and the kernel modules (but they are real upstream |
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> modules and very stable). |
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I'm kind of leaning towards KVM at the moment. Just a quick question: |
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by "kernel modules" do you literally mean kernel modules? It's just that |
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my kernel isn't built for modules (for simplicity's sake), so would that |
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mean me having to change this, or can I just build the stuff in? |
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> Xen is the most advanced solution, but maybe not the best one to play |
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> around. But it's supported by virt-manager, too. |
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> > TVM |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nürnberg). |
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