On 1/8/25 00:43, gene heskett wrote:
On 1/7/25 15:12, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. 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...
Basically, anything starting with a k came from ingo klockers kde desktop.
While that's true for some packages, it's not true for others
(e.g. related to kernel, kali, kerberos or kubernetes) like KVM.
qemu OTOH is a tiny kernel that serves as the building foundation for
other applications. It predates linux but has always been a niche
product that because it was tiny and had decade long uptimes, but
limitations that linux blew thru, has remained a niche product. At least
that is my impression. YMMV.
QEMU is still the basic tool if you use KVM.
Detlef
