Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06:02PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > So my guess would be to make kvm/qemu bigger.. make it work in Windows. Apart from WinKVM already mentioned, you can run straight qemu on Windows. It works like a charm, not very fast, but good enough for testing things. We

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-17 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 06/18/2011 12:23 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:06 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> So my guess would be to make kvm/qemu bigger.. make it work in Windows. > > Well, the clue's in the name: > > "KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine)" > > I don't know any of the det

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-17 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 12:06 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > So my guess would be to make kvm/qemu bigger.. make it work in Windows. Well, the clue's in the name: "KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine)" I don't know any of the details of the implementation of KVM, but the fact that it's wr

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 16:59, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:37, Dave Jones wrote: >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. >> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be >> related to it, I have almost zero confide

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-16 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:42 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > I've seen some reports of F15 not working in Virtualbox. There's a few > > notes online about possible fixes. Is there some way we can better test > > this in the future (I'm thinking about Q

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-16 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:42 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > I've seen some reports of F15 not working in Virtualbox. There's a few > notes online about possible fixes. Is there some way we can better test > this in the future (I'm thinking about QA but that might not be the right > place). > > Smol

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 10:25 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 11.6.2011 16:21, Gilboa Davara napsal(a): > > > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:25 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > >> On 10/06/11 16:12, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> > >>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> > > They are available, but I thin

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-13 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 11.6.2011 16:21, Gilboa Davara napsal(a): > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:25 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: >> On 10/06/11 16:12, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> >>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > They are available, but I think you have to build them yourself from source. All the information

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-12 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > > while you're thinking about what to do in the area of virt-clone / > > cloning VMs, I recon it would be nice not only to be able to clone > > VMs that have image files, but also thos

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-12 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > while you're thinking about what to do in the area of virt-clone / > cloning VMs, I recon it would be nice not only to be able to clone > VMs that have image files, but also those that have a Logical Volume > as

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> > 1. Easy setup of networking (bridged). >> Just to followup, to setup bridged net on kvm I need to reboot my server. >> That's a non-starter. > > And long as you're will to do the hard work yourself, there's no need to > reboot your machine. > > 1. Create a bridge co

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:30:10 +0200, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > As for the subject at hand, -I- find VB a far inferior solution when it > > comes to SMP and IO (disk/network) performance. > > With the latest VB and the SATA controller I see faster performance in the > VM over bare hardware. Th

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Cronenworth
- Original message - > > As for the subject at hand, -I- find VB a far inferior solution when it > comes to SMP and IO (disk/network) performance. With the latest VB and the SATA controller I see faster performance in the VM over bare hardware. > Sure, during the years I've create a lar

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
> > 1. Easy setup of networking (bridged). > Just to followup, to setup bridged net on kvm I need to reboot my server. > That's a non-starter. And long as you're will to do the hard work yourself, there's no need to reboot your machine. 1. Create a bridge configuration for each target network

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 16:25 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/06/11 16:12, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >> They are available, but I think you have to build them yourself from > >> source. All the information is here: > > > > 2. Make guest additions dead simp

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:24 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > I'd suggest you purchase a new card reader. You do realize you can > pick them up for around $10? I'd even pay you $20 if you find me one that writes those strange edge flash cards used by freeflight GPS devices. Tom -- devel mailing l

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 06/10/2011 06:12 PM, Thomas Sailer wrote: > - USB is not really workable. Trying it just now with up2date F15 > crashed qemu (guest rawhide) when trying to assign a host USB device to > the guest > If you're seriously interested in usb redirection, I'm working on seriously improving that

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/11/2011 05:35 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > Why would many prospective contributors choose to work on KVM's > desktop usability when VirtualBox's is already superior? Because they like KVM and use it because of other advantages like performance? Because they disagree with handing copyright

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Customers ask us to make the changes they want -- for server use and > scalability -- and KVM is absolutely the best in that area as a > result.  See many recent benchmarks. > > Usability on single desktops is, well ... we do our best.

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
Quoting "Przemek Klosowski" : > > Make it one command: > > yum install > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.x86_64.rpm > > (or VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.i686.rpm for 32-bit systems) > OMG, I am such a dick for not even thinking of that

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Jones
Quoting "Thomas Sailer" : > > Also, I have a strange card reader which I would love to use under some > form of virtualisation, as the accompanying application only runs under > very old versions of windows. > > The card reader has the misfeature that it requires firmware to be > loaded by the PC.

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you want excellent desktop usability, then organize a group and > make the work and patches happen. I knew this would be the response, but I do not hold it against you. If anyone wants to hire me and pay me to do this full-time job's worth of work I'd be glad to. ;

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:13:39PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Just to followup, to setup bridged net on kvm I need to reboot my server. > That's a non-starter. I would be very surprised if rebooting was really needed. (But conversely *not* very surprised if the instructions said you need to re

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12:50AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > They are available, but I think you have to build them yourself from > > source. All the information is here: > > This is not an argument for libvirt/kvm/qemu/spice but against. > > Here's some c

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >> > >> > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved >> > > and frequent on users systems

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:29 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's a bug for these issues (no resolution though): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541230 My case was way more extreme, one core pretty much fully used by ksmd. It was with late F14, just before the release of F15

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/06/11 16:54, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Tom Hughes on 06/10/2011 10:25 AM wrote: >> Actually building the driver (once I'd downloaded the 620Mb DDK) was >> quite easy. I'm still scratching my head over how to actually install it >> though ;-) >> >> That was only the graphics driver anyway -

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Tom Hughes on 06/10/2011 10:25 AM wrote: > Actually building the driver (once I'd downloaded the 620Mb DDK) was > quite easy. I'm still scratching my head over how to actually install it > though ;-) > > That was only the graphics driver anyway - what I really want is the > agent for the clipboard

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/06/11 16:12, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> They are available, but I think you have to build them yourself from >> source. All the information is here: > > 2. Make guest additions dead simple to install. Having to compile them > with a Windows DDK is not dead

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 6/10/11 10:39 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote: > To add to the point about graphics support there is also the fact that > GNOME3/Unity will only run with accelerated graphics which only > VirtualBox supports. I have Gnome 3 running with software GL. I'll probably be blogging about it soon, it's not

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > They are available, but I think you have to build them yourself from > source. All the information is here: This is not an argument for libvirt/kvm/qemu/spice but against. Here's some constructive advice: 1. Give the Red Hat virtualization tools one, unique name and

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Bidewell
>> Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change >> in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? >> >> Dave >> > > 1. Easy setup of networking (bridged). > 2. Support decent graphics mode in guests.  (After installing guest > additions, a > winxp guest on fedora host can

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:22:37AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > 2. Support decent graphics mode in guests. (After installing guest > additions, a winxp guest on fedora host can run in any graphics > resolution. I don't think qemu/kvm does this). With SPICE, maximum resolution is 2560x1600. Rich.

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:08:26AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: >(i) Variable size image for the VM >- it grows to accommodate need Interested to know why sparse images or qcow2 don't fulfil your needs. These have been supported in KVM (and Xen) since forever. > (ii) Easy to duplic

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 02:30:46PM +0200, Thomas Sailer wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:24 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > - it's memory deduplication reimplements what already in-kernel (for the > >sake of cross platform) > > Kernel deduplication runs amok on my machine. When I have two

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 06/09/2011 07:44 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > Also, for those that may not be aware, Virtualbox can be installed in > just 2 commands in your Fedora system. Assuming you have wget installed. ... > ~$ su > wget > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_fedora15-1.x

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:24 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > - it's memory deduplication reimplements what already in-kernel (for the >sake of cross platform) Kernel deduplication runs amok on my machine. When I have two guests, one Windows, one Rawhide, running under kvm/qemu, kernel deduplicat

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Sailer
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:50 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The other feature is USB passthrough. (KVM can do this, but IIRC it > only works for USB 1.1 devices and it's not integrated into the UI). Last time I tried I had to specify USB device and bus numbers. This is quite unusable, as they

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved > > > and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/09/2011 06:37 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Long list already from others but a couple of other things that are nice (dont know if qemu has these today, but didn't used to) (i) Variable size image for the VM - it grows

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:18:49AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 10/06/11 09:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:03:16AM +0200, tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >>- Running Windows application in a windows guest, runs very smooth, no > >>delay in updating the GUI

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. > Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be > related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable. > > Why are people choosing

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/06/11 09:12, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:03:16AM +0200, tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: > >> - Running Windows application in a windows guest, runs very smooth, no >> delay in updating the GUI. > > You should try new versions. I've never had a problem with d

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:03:16AM +0200, tim.laurid...@gmail.com wrote: >- Local shared folders. to share files from Fedora host to windows >client. libvirt can do this now, and I think so can virt-manager (not checked). http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFilesystems I'm not s

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >  > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >  > >  > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved >  > > and frequent on users syst

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. > Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be > related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable. > > Why are people choosing

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:30:07PM -0700, Dan Young wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:37, Dave Jones wrote: > >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. > >> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-10 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change > in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? > > I use Virtualbox on a laptop with Fedora 14 as host OS, I use for building and test installation of Windows applicati

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Boström
tor 2011-06-09 klockan 18:37 -0400 skrev Dave Jones: > Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change > in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? Resurrect kqemu? No, not gonna happen. There are still usable CPUs out there, even 64-bit ones, that KVM won't run on. T

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >> >>> I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved >>> and frequent on users systems, particu

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 21:13, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: >> Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change >> in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? > > It works on Linux, OS X, Windows, and even Solaris. That

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:37:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change > in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ? It works on Linux, OS X, Windows, and even Solaris. That means large institutions can recommend one solution for eve

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
Quoting "Dave Jones" : > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > I don't think there are any developers working on this area, where "this > > area" is Virtualbox. We don't ship Virtualbox. We don't ship a kernel > > that has any knowledge of Virtualbox. There'

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Dan Young
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:37, Dave Jones wrote: >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. >> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be >> related to it, I have almost zero confid

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Steve Clark
I use it because it has a nice GUI. I was an original user of vmware when it first came out, actually bought a license. I have been using VirtualBox since vmware went to the web interface gui, couldn't get it to work so I found VirtualBox, been using it ever since. I only use it for testing and

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread John5342
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 23:37, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved > > > and frequent on users system

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:37, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >  > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: >  > >  > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved >  > > and frequent on users systems

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
On 06/09/2011 04:37 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. > Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be > related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable. > > Why are people choosing it over other solu

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:57PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved > > and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users, > > I think

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:01:06PM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > I agree. As virtualization technology becomes more and more involved > and frequent on users systems, particularly with advanced Linux users, > I think there needs to be a strong focus on ensuring that all releases > run in virtu

Re: F15 / VirtualBox

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
Quoting "Mike McGrath" : > I've seen some reports of F15 not working in Virtualbox. There's a few > notes online about possible fixes. Is there some way we can better test > this in the future (I'm thinking about QA but that might not be the right > place). > > Smolt has virtualbox rated as pret