On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <r...@rtellason.com> wrote: > > These packages were pointed out to me a while back as a possible alternative > to virtualbox. While doing a bit of work on the new machine, I did a quick > search using both of those terms in Synaptic Package Manager, also updating > a couple of files and installing one other package. These searches each > returned a nonntrivial list of packages, but none of them was named kvm or > qemu, so I must be missing something here. Can any of you guys help me out? > I'm not averse to other tools, like apt, etc. if that's preferable... > > A pointer to any documentation on these so I can get a good idea of how to > set it up would also be helpful.
QEMU/KVM/libvirt is my preferred virtualization software nowadays. In the past I used VMware on OS X, and VirtuaBox just about everywhere else. But I got tired of VirtualBox breaking with each kernel upgrade, and waiting for Oracle to fix it. QEMU/KVM drivers are maintained by the kernel team, so they always work. The drivers are signed by the kernel, so you don't need to jump through hoops when using Secure Boot. You can find documentation at libvirt, <https://wiki.libvirt.org/>. The one downside (to me) was networking. It can be complicated to setup. I like my VM guests to get an IP address from my DHCP server, and I like to SSH into my VM guests. You need to setup a bridge for that, and that takes extra work for QEMU/KVM. And it is not documented well. In contrast, it "just works" under VMware and VirtualBox. If you want the bridge, then see "Setting bridge for VMs IP assignment by router's DHCP server," <https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/us...@lists.libvirt.org/thread/Q2BEGIE2SGSQKGTKOW57LVWT334MCALK/>. Jeff
