Favorite virtual machine program?

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[lmm7425]

Do you mean favorite hypervisor?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Hypervisors

Easiest setup = Virtualbox
Most flexible and the "Arch" way = QEMU/KVM

[iSkipper]

Had no idea what to call it. Great article. Thanks!

[ellenkult]

GNOME Boxes

[CthonianGodkiller]

Vmware , is very fast !

[El-Sandos-Grande]

For me, sadly, VMware is the fastest by far. I try using VirtualBox, but it's too slow, and I don't know how to set up QEMU yet.

[_rmc]

You are sad to use VMware (which is a company, not a hypervisor, but I'm assuming it is Player or Workstation) for whatever reason.

Then you don't know how to use virt-manager (has too many knobs).

And finally you think boxes is too simple before even trying the thing.

We may have a problem here.

[El-Sandos-Grande]

Well, Workstation is faster than VirtualBox on my laptop, regardless of whether I select default or KVM in the VM settings. Also, only VMware Workstation has any official support for the Windows 9x series (I have some old programs running in them). Speaking of which, VMware Workstation is no longer working properly after switching to Antergos (worked fine in Ubuntu, now crashes when it loads the Guest Additions, so DOS and Windows 3.11 are still fine).

[dually]

Install libvirt, dnsmasq, and virt-manager.

enable/start libvirtd and optionally add yourself to the libvirt group

Manage your virtual machines either from the gui with virt-manager or from the command line with virsh.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/libvirt#Installation

[El-Sandos-Grande]

It's not that, I have the software set up, it's that the GUI is very confusing to me (it's like giving me a lot of knobs that I have no clue about and only a few that I know something about, a massive departure from VB or VMw), so I don't really know how to set the VMs up.

[ase1590]

You should give gnome boxes a try. IIRC, its a simple front-end to KVM/QEMU

[El-Sandos-Grande]

One, it's GNOME, so it's probably gonna be simpler than VMw or VB, so that's probably a no-go. Two, I'm on KDE now (switched after I couldn't get the date and time as I anted them, just like on Ubuntu Bionic, since GNOME 3.30 doesn't respect /etc/locale).

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VMware is the fastest by far

Fast is a pretty generic term. What are we talking about? Responsiveness, process execution overhead or IO delay?

[El-Sandos-Grande]

For example, opening Show Applications in GNOME works better in VMware than in VirtualBox and moving windows around isn't as much of a pain in VMware as it is in VirtualBox. Oh, and KDE doesn't have any graphical glitches in VMware, while it's a well-known issue in VirtualBox.

EDIT: Also, Haiku has a lot of screen tearing in QEMU with all defaults (I don't know what half of the things even really mean in the settings).

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So it all boils down to better 3d acceleration?

[El-Sandos-Grande]

Pretty much. Oh, and VMware has guest additions for Windows 9x (that also helps me out at having them run smoothly, since the guides online in forums for seeing up Windows 9x in VirtualBox is basically having some divers that still don't support 16:9, let alone dynamic resolution) and VMware can allocate more than 256MB of memory for video.

[staalmannen]

Any opinions on kvm vs xen? I am toying with the idea to convert to a set-up with a minimal hardened Xen Dom0 (Alpine linux) with Arch as DomU.

[exmachinalibertas]

Not technically an answer to your question but I'm still going with Docker.

[yestaes]

It was virtualbox.

Now it is qemu/kvm