| 1 |
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
| 2 |
> Hi, Gentoo. |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with |
| 5 |
> virtual machines on my Gentoo. |
| 6 |
> |
| 7 |
> I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in |
| 8 |
> directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be |
| 11 |
> looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
I've heard you should stay away from virtualbox, due to instability |
| 14 |
from their kernel modules. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
Apart from that, make sure your kernel has kvm support enabled. |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
From there, you can either try playing with Xen (I've got my Gentoo |
| 19 |
desktop as my dom0), libvirt, qemu-kvm or vmware-workstation. I |
| 20 |
haven't tried any of the latter three on Gentoo, and I haven't tried |
| 21 |
vmware on Linux at *all*. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
I can't make a good recommendation for which would suit you best. |
| 24 |
Perhaps someone else could make a suggestion or two. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
:wq |
Archives