Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2023, 19:03:15 CEST schrieb Michael Kjörling: This is interesting information! Looks like KVM and Virt-Manager are better and faster than Virtualbox.
Obviously it seems (regarding to other people), these solutions are more stable, too. That looks great, as I am not so happy of beeing dependent on Oracle. However, often I get some Images as OVA files, but I still could not get, how to import OVA files to Virt-Manager or KVM. A graphical way is preferred, but if not possible, also the CLI way will be acceptable I installed aqemu (a GUI for qemu), virt-manger (a little bit complex GUI) and virtualbox (from Oracle, but without guest-additions annd ext-pack). Virtualbox is easy to use, but I like AQEMU, too (it is using KVM). Are the other solutions capable, to import and export OVA or VDI? Best Hans > On 26 Oct 2023 21:37 +0500, from avbe...@gmail.com (Alexander V. Makartsev): > > I don't use virtualbox (KVM does everything and more for me) so I can't > > vouch for the quality of packages from Oracle. > > I switched from VirtualBox to KVM at one point; as I recall a Debian > kernel upgrade broke VirtualBox and still after two weeks or so Oracle > hadn't updated their for-Debian repository with a version that > incorporated a fix. (This was the respective "stable" versions at the > time, and while I don't recall the details, the breakage made > VirtualBox useless for my use case.) I had planned to do such a > migration anyway; the breakage just somewhat forced the issue. > > KVM/QEMU/virt-manager and friends perhaps aren't as streamlined for > the typical end user who just wants to quickly spin up a VM with > minimal hassle, but they are also very much more powerful if you're > willing to do a little reading. (For example, I had to do a fair bit > of digging to figure out how to get guest networking to work reliably > without turning off the host firewall.[1]) This is in line with their > respective intended usage: VirtualBox is at best a power user tool, > whereas KVM is intended for large server deployments but _can_ be used > on workstation virtualization hosts as well. > > [1] > https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2022/linux-kvm-host-nftables-guest-network > ing/
