Let me add one more voice to say, why oh why would you do that to yourself and suffer subpar virtualization when you have world class type 1 virtualization built straight into the kernel. And an incredibly capable UI, around since 2009, in the form of virt-manager?
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I'm genuinely curious, why does VB continue to somehow remain in use, when it's lacking in features, or behind in usability, in basically every way imaginable? If you're on a Linux host, you have plenty of 1-click solutions that are incomprehensibly better than this. On Windows, Hyper-V boxes aren't horribly difficult to get running either, although from my experience, they require the same janky and hacky patches as VB does
Virtual box (for me) is the only app that has always been plug and play when I needed a VM. I've had issues with all the other ones. I still can't figure out how to get GPU passthrough to work on kvm. I tried so much the other day and failed miserably. Gave up and went back to VB.
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What are the other solutions?
Virt-manager
Does it still need to reboot the guest in order to connect an USB device?
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Vm manager, gnome boxes
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Had to run linux VM at previous job. Dreadful experience. Glad I can run natively now.
What was dreadful about it?
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What happened to being able to use VirtualBox as a front-end to KVM? That seemed like the best of both worlds.
It's still being maintained. It's a third-party project btw, but it's just a patchset so you'll need to build it yourself: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm
Arch users can also install the virtualbox-kvm package from AUR to get it all in one go, nice and easy.
Damn, never knew such thing existed. I'll definitely give it a try. Thank you.
Cool beans. KVM is one step away from fully replacing VirtualBox and VMware for desktop virtualisation - getting a Windows 3D driver for Virtio. For use cases that can get away without it, it's already there.
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