[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:33:50PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> - QEMU and VirtualBox.  They both use KVM.

Virtualbox does not use kvm.  It will use vt-x if you have it.
kvm requires it.

> - VirtualBox practically needs no manual.  It's all mouse clicks.  The
>   only time I actually had to read something, was to convert VMDK to VDI
>   format (using VBoxManage on command line in Windows)
> - QEMU requires manpage and shell script to store all the options you
>   discovered. :-)

But the flexibility is great.

> I'm not sure about "headless".  From memory, I seems to have closer
> association with VirtualBox than with QEMU.

qemu's ability to run as a vnc server is handy.

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Len Sorensen