Re: Virtualization under Bookworm
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird
> maze of fiddling to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now?
>
> On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for
> > virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS
> > even your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you can't.
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM James Bloom <jabloom99@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Carl:
> >
> > I use VirtualBox on Debian 12, and I run virtual Windows 11 and
> > Linux machines with no issue. I also tried GNOME boxes and had no
> > direct problems, but I went back to using VirtualBox because it
> > was compatible with my cloud storage setup - I can save a
> > VirtualBox virtual machine file in the cloud server and access it
> > from my desktop and laptop without issue, whereas GNOME boxes
> > wouldn’t work if I did that - there were always boot errors. But
> > GNOME boxes otherwise seemed to work great.
> >
> > James
> >
> > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
> > *Sent:* Saturday, August 26, 2023 9:29:30 AM
> > *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > *Subject:* Virtualization under Bookworm
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine
> > hosted on
> > my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used
> > VirtualBox,
> > just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then.
> >
> > What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to
> > create a
> > one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even
> > main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as
> > VirtualBox
> > was back in the day.
> >
> > System is an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52 (Ryzen 7 6800, 32 GB of RAM, 2
> > terabyte SSD).
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -Carl Fink
> >
Apt-install virt-manager - nice graphical virtual machine manager - and it
should pull in qemu and kvm
All the very best, as ever
Andy Cater
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mario.
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