Currently browsing 4chan from a Virtualbox virtual machine, running Windows XP, said VM itself being on Kubuntu.All VM discussion welcome here; Virtualbox, DOSbox, QEMU, heck, I'm pretty sure Wine, Proton, and vidya emulation all count as virtual machines, so talk about those here too
not much to talk about when libvirt exists
>>106784007>libvirtpoor for anything graphical honestly.
>>106784047For graphical stuff, VirtualBox and free VMware all the way.
>>106784007>not much to talk aboutwhy are you limiting yourself, anon?What are you using libvert to emulate? Why did you choose libvert over another option? Is there anything special you've needed to do to get it set up? Are you having any issues with it?There's plenty of things to say, you just gotta ask the right questions
>>106784127okay might as well put my money where my mouth is and answer the same questions but for my own setup>why Virtualbox?Because I've used it before back before I swapped to Linux, it's fairly easy to use with a pretty decent GUI, and... I couldn't get AQEMU to work lol>what are you emulating?Basically just taking a nostalgia trip through old Microsoft OSes-- MSDOS, Windows 3.1, 9x, Me, and XP are the ones I've mainly gone through. Along the way I even... TRIED to install Microsoft BOB, it did nnnnnnnot want to cooperate>anything special to get it set up / any issues?Turns out, you need to disable kvm on Linux in order to get Virtualbox to function, something about the two fighting over the processor's virtualization features. Fun! Also, getting Windows 9x to be compatible with VirtualBox's virtual graphics card is A Process; as was getting a "modern" web browser onto Win XP (Supermium is the one I'm using; MyPal refused to extract/install)
>>106784330>Turns out, you need to disable kvm on Linux in order to get Virtualbox to functionLinux hypervisors always turn out to be janky shit. 15 years ago we were updating VMware server and hoping the kernel module could still compile and run.
>>106784003whats the best way for gpu passthrough?i want to slap steam into a vm and play game inside it so that steam botnet cant access my local networking/filesystem
>>106784497Nobody can answer this. The one guy who got it working can't even touch the setup to piece together what he did because it would fall apart.
dreading updating the work vm to windows 11. the other windows vm is purely for visual novels so I can just remove the virtual nic, internet doesn't get used in that vm anyways. both vms have their own physical gpu but I only use looking glass with the work vm since real time audio only works without glitching when I use audio over HDMI.
>>106784047>what is virt-manager>>106784127because you can read all this stuff I'm going to type. there's no reason to use any other hypervisor than kvm+libvirt+qemu.>>106784448because kvm (kernel based virtual machine) is how you get near native performance on processors with virtualization extensions (all modern intel/amd x86_64 last 10+ years)>>106784497easiest would be to have another monitor or a monitor with a kvm (keyboard, video, mouse) switch so you can switch to the passed through guest.otherwise, there is a project using shared memory to have graphics acceleration passed through to the host called looking glass, though I can't speak on it.
>>106784497steam doesnt access my local network or filesystem, you must be doing something wrong
>>106784903>near native performanceTabbing back to the VM to see it still hasn't moved on from the GRUB menu is nowhere near native performance.
>>106784929are you using apparmor or selinux on it?
>>106784963win 11
>>106784903>there's no reason to use any other hypervisor than kvm+libvirt+qemuim a noob that only used vbox once how do i get into learning this? what do people use this for?
>>106784003qemu/kvm with libvirt. works gud and isn't pozzed by oracle.
>>106784003>OracleNah I'm not installing that shit on my computer
>>106784497I use raw qemu. It's roughly done like this:>detach GPU from graphics driver (optional if no driver installed)>attach GPU to vfio driver>add -device vfio-pci-nohotplug to qemu command lineTo get video output you can either connect it with a cable to your monitor and switch outputs there or use LookingGlass with a dummy plug. If you use a cable you can still use a the QEMU UI for keyboard and mouse input. It's not that hard unless your hardware is quirky.
Sandbox is pretty good
>>106784003>VirtualBoxeasy to configure but shit performance>VMwareeasy to configure, good performance but it's the most proprietary piece of software known to man>libvirt/KVM/virtmanagerdifficult to configure, best performancePick your poison I guess?Winboat looks promising though
>>106786937Just use a proper hypervisor like Hyper-v or proxmox
>>106785029you are getting rawdogged by steam spyware then
Qrd on android virtualization?I heard google made some built-in debian VM solution for their latest android version but it only works on google pixels or something
>>106787460Yeah there's a new option "(Experimental) Run Linux terminal on Android" which installs, well, a Linux terminal, with Debian inside. Haven't really used it honestly, termux is enough for me until I get to something more serious there which requires proper GNU system
>>106784003docker is the bane of my careerit literally NEVER works, least of all when I'm trying to install a dockerfile for a job interview, although I think that may have been because I didn't have 16GB RAM at the time (FUCK minds.com for ignoring my emails after this) at least now when I try to run it and it inevitably doesn't work, I'm getting paid to try and fix it (I never do fix it) it's at the point where if the company says they're using docker, that's when I start looking elsewhere
>>106787810overzealous containerization is a snake oil and likely a red flag but you might be overestimating your skills if you cant even build simple dockerfiles
what's the buzz on bhyve?
>>106787810post an example of what is not working, surely a skill issue
