On 2021-02-17 19:50, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:59:51 -0500, brent s. via arch-general wrote:
Unless you have a very specific need, I'd instead recommend using something like KVM
It's exactly the other way round. Virtualbox is a painless out of the box solution satisfying a lot of needs. Only if you have a very special need, consider to migrate to something less comfortable such as KVM.
And if virtualbox performs adequate you gain absolutely nothing from those performance gains, but you'll lose all the out of the box features virtualbox provides, such as file sharing without any effort.
Hi Ralf, I think you may be confusing technology suggestions with specific software suggestions. You don't need to use KVM, QEMU or libvirtd directly, there is plenty of nice GUI software which uses KVM under the hood. virt-manager is a good starting point. If you want something *more* high-level than virtualbox, have a look at GNOME Boxes, which uses KVM [1] and is the most streamlined VM application I have ever seen. Cheers, Bennett [1]: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/supported-protocols.html.en