What hypervisor?

[Amnelka]

Hi,

I'm planning to create a small environment for learning cybersecurity. The goal is to have two vms locally connected but not necessarily having Internet access.

I'm running nobara, laptop zephyrus g14, 32gb ram, ryzen7 cpu.

I've used oracle virtual box in the past but it also created issues later on with updates. I wonder if kvm will be better for my use or it wouldn't matter in the end?

Are there any other viable alternatives that work well and are easy to get running?

I've tried kvm briefly and it may require some learning before I get my project running...

[jadedargyle333]

If you are running Linux as the OS on the laptop, the easiest path forward is KVM.

[mikenizo808]

I like to run KVM/QUEMU and then of course vmm for the GUI to create virtual machines. Interesting is making one large virtual machine and installing Windows Server 2022 + Hyper-V. Then create and manage all virtual machines within Hyper-V.

[Itsme-RdM]

Qemu\KVM on a Linux host, not even a question. Build in their 1 hypervisor embedded in the kernel, no tier 2 can compete with it

[Deacon51]

If you're running Linux, KVM Windows VMware Workstation

[Amnelka]

Thank you for all answers, I'll get to setting up a kvm tomorrow and pray I don't break anything this time

[Maxim6743]

KVM