Re: virtual machine choices in Debian
On Friday 18 July 2008 00:21:23 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
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> > I'm rather content with virtualbox-ose, but you have to be careful to
> > run a kernel with all the pieces needed (linux-image +
> > virtualbox-ose-modules to match). I'm currently running a -486 kernel
>
> Can't the modules be built with module-assistant?
Sun owns this now so thing may change to be more standard in the debian
package. Who knows.
One builds the module /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup (as root)
Vbox will not boot a number of things. No success with the little slackware
delilinux which would be the best VM for those of us without gigas of memory.
Haiku (beOP) and reactos also will fail. Qemu will run most anything and
without the need of guest-modules which may or may not be available for the
target guest or may or may not install their successfully. Qemu presents
standard "hardware".
Xen will run linux--no windows.
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