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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Cool that it is now a flatpak

However, I would recommend gnome boxes or virtual manager.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As this uses the KVM backend, they are all essentially alternative UI for the same hypervisor.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

KVM is only used for the CPU portions

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Surely it uses KVM for memory isolation as well.

I guess what you are saying is that VirtualBox is still doing device emulation. If so, we agree.

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