On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 2:32:08 PM AEDT Steve Roylance via luv-main wrote: > On 29/11/16 11:37, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox > > https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox > > > > Has anyone used Virtualbox? What's it like? > > I use VB extensively and usually have at least one client open > being an Ubuntu instance on a Fedora-23 system. > > It does have requirement to reinstall VB after a kernel upgrade, but on > Fedora that is one command "dnf reinstall Virt...rpm" so it is not an > impediment. I do use the rpms from the VirtualBox site and not those > built by third parties "RPMFusion" which automates even this one extra > command.
As Allan noted DKMS is the ideal solution to that problem. But it's still a reason for me to avoid it. I currently have DKMS in place for zfsonlinux on some of my systems and don't want the added pain of multiple DKMS installations. I sometimes have a sudden and unexpected need to run a VM on a client's system and really want to avoid having to compile new kernel modules for that. NB this is more of an issue of personal preference and being conservative as a sysadmin than anything else, it is quite likely to just work well in practice. > It works well and great for running archaic systems, it will support > back to MS-DOS-6.22 and MS-WIN-3.10. Fedora-17 (25 being the current > release) is the oldest of my current instances. Doesn't KVM/Qemu work with MS-DOS and MS-Win? > Otherwise do not run out or RAM, as swapping will stop a system. Yes, one of the benefits of Xen in some situations is that RAM is reserved and outside the scope of the Dom0 OS. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
