[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 10:29:16PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Part of the problem is comparing a mixture of apples and oranges.
> you cannot run a virtual machine using KVM on its own.
> KVM is a set of kernel API's and modules that make use of the underlying CPU
> hardware.
> 
> Virtualbox is a complete product that contains its own API's and a bunch of
> tools to provide a user interface.
> 
> Virtualbox is better compared with things like VMware or virtual-manager or
> proxmox.

virtualbox is like vmware.  A complete system.  proxmox is just a UI on
top of kvm and lxc.  Virtual-manager is a UI layer on top of a lot of
things (kvm, qemu, etc).

> QEMU is a middle wear tool that has been forked by several products to
> provide hardware emulation but is generally not enough to provide all the
> features of something like virtualbox or virtual-manager.
> You can use QEMU to roll your own virtual systems but you then need to
> manage most of the scaffolding  on your own.

Yes qemu has tons of options and features, but not a friendly UI, and
certainly not friendly defaults.

> Its kind of like comparing gnome or KDE to the x-server.

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Len Sorensen