Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2017, 21:20:18 CET schrieb Mark Fletcher: Hi Mark, try KVM, my favourite, it is working great. Use AQEMU as management interface. Maybe QEMU is also a solution.
Good luck! Hans > Hello! > > I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox > is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable > distro shortly. > > I use Virtualbox for a couple of Windows machines to do the last task I > cannot yet migrate to Debian (due to specialist software that is not made > for Linux). > > I am starting to contemplate migrating from Virtualbox to a different > virtualisation solution that will be supported in Stretch. > > My needs are fairly vanilla -- I have a 4-core-with-hyperthreading Intel > Core i7 920 CPU, circa 2009, and 24GB or RAM in the host. I run 2 VMs, > not all the time, which have 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM each. > > Access to physical optical drive, and virtual disks, is important. > Shared folders with the host OS (which is currently Jessie and will be > Stretch in the future) is important. 2D graphics is important, 3D less > so. Ability to access physical USB equipment attached to the host would > be nice but not a show-stopper. I have never got that working completely > satisfactorily with my Virtualbox install, but suspect that is due more > to insufficient time reading documentation than it is to limitations in > the software (which should illustrate the importance of that element of > things). > > Minimal time futzing around to get the virtualisation solution working > is important, as is not having to learn an entirely new paradigm to use > the software. Stability of the result is also important. > > And finally, a neat solution to migrate my Virtualbox machines to the > new environment is very important -- I would infinitely prefer not to > have to re-install from scratch into the new environment but would > prefer to be able to migrate my Virtualbox disks to the new environment > somehow, if anything supports that. > > So my question is, is there an alternative solution in Debian that > allows for that easy migration path -- any recommendations? > > Thanks > > Mark
