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I use vmware and qemu

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Gnome Boxes 🥲 Because im avoiding to install anything to the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You should never install anything to the kernel if possible tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You also could try virtual manager

It is all KVM so it is natively supported

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I'm running another Linux distro that will be happy under the host kernel then I use LXD (or Incus) containers. Otherwise it's QEMU+KVM or occasionally Virtual Box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I use LXD (or Incus) containers

I've been curious about those for a while, what are they about, are they somehow better than the usual Docker/Podman conatiners?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

VirtualBox (desktop for testing and development [Vagrant]), KVM: libvirt, Proxmox (production stuff).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Just be mindful of guest addons. (The are not foss)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried using virt-manager+kvm to try some stuff out the other day but I failed to set-up some crucial things. Probably me being incompetent.

Not like virtualization is a big part of my life anyway. I just wanted to try some other distros and such without rebooting.

If I were to get serious about virtualization I'd need to build a new PC with a second GPU. Then I could stop dual-booting and do everything with VMs. But it'd only be worth it to get serious about learning how to virtualize stuff if I were to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can single pass through but it feels more like your using one os but if that's the case wouldn't dual booting be better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm using systemd-nspawn or Bubblewrap, depending on the scenario.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Those are container platforms not virtualization

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yep. I found I don't have much use for a full-blown VM, whereas there's plenty of argument for isolating my browser from ~/.ssh/id_*.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

VMware, Virtualbox for OSes that hate VMware, and Qemu for emulating OSes that only run on obscure platforms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Replied to others with this but realized you won't get those notifications. I finally got around to releasing this, which is Debian in your browser via Docker: https://nowsci.com/webbian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

KVM, QEMU, Looking Glass

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