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On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:10 -0500 |
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Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > in directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking. |
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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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> I've heard you should stay away from virtualbox, due to instability |
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> from their kernel modules. |
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I use virtualbox and it's the one I recommend. |
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The kernel modules are no better and no worse than any other |
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out-of-tree modules. Yes, they break sometimes. So does VMWare. So did |
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ath network cards long ago - that's how life works. |
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Here it runs on stable with zero issues about kernel versions for 6 |
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months+, it's probably reasonable to assume that bleeding edge kernels |
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would of course not build occasionally. But does one really want to run |
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VMs on the latest bleeding edge kernel? I don't. |
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What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the |
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open-source version. With VMWare you get player for free but need |
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paying version to get more functionality. |
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It's been a long time since I payed with Xen so I can't really comment |
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on that product. |
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qemu-kvm would appeal to the hard-core geek, something that Alan Mac is |
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at least in part |
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> Apart from that, make sure your kernel has kvm support enabled. |
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> From there, you can either try playing with Xen (I've got my Gentoo |
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> desktop as my dom0), libvirt, qemu-kvm or vmware-workstation. I |
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> haven't tried any of the latter three on Gentoo, and I haven't tried |
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> vmware on Linux at *all*. |
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> I can't make a good recommendation for which would suit you best. |
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> Perhaps someone else could make a suggestion or two. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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