arch in a vm?

[William Weaver]

I'm currently doing this myself on my KVM server. I chose KVM over Virtual
Box mostly because it's what RedHat is using and I'm trying to stay pretty
close to RedHat for my job. Not worth using one distro at work and one at
home for the same purposes. I've also noticed the massive amount of
different management tools available for KVM. Thinks like oVirt are
abundant and can make your KVM as user friendly as VirtualBox or VMWare if
your not really interested in doing the command line management of KVM, and
of course there's virt-manager, though I had a chicken/egg situation there
as I needed a linux box with x to run virt-manager and I needed a VM to
have a linux work environment. I use windows on my desktop for gaming
reasons and I'm far to lazy to dual boot. Truthfully though even for a noob
I got pretty comfortable editing xmls and mucking about in virsh that it's
not that imtimidating. You can also very easily fix anything you muck up if
you keep a few backups of your xml file.

If you go that route I can write something up and send you the steps I
followed to get my ArchLinux build off the ground along with a few
descriptions of why I chose certain things. Configuring arch is another
thing entirely (still working on that)

Will Weaver


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante <kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Hello Matt,
>
> As others said, you have these two great options (also others): VirtualBox
> and KVM.
>
> I think the point is not "which one is better", as you already said you
> "haven't worked with VMs for a long while. I thinks that's the point.
> VirtualBox has an GUI more friendly with an easier configuration template
> and other stuff that will make you project easier.
>
> Good look trying this great distro.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide
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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:29 AM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > After years with Ubuntu, I'm getting the itch to try something else.
>>  Arch
>> > looks like fun but I don't have a spare machine right now to experiment
>> on,
>> > so I would like to install it in a virtual machine on one of my ubuntu
>> > boxes (either my 12.10 laptop or the 12.04 desktop that runs our media
>> > centre and family computer).
>> >
>> > I haven't worked with VM's for a long while -- any suggestions as to
>> which
>> > solution is easiest & most practical?
>> >
>> > Thanks much,
>> > Matt
>>
>> For test run, both VirtualBox and KVM are okay.  I started with
>> VirtualBox because it has better GUI and better mouse response.  Now,
>> I'm using KVM, because it can access raw harddisk, whereas VirtualBox is
>> limited to USB disk.
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