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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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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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> |
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> TVM |
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> |
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