[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

[David Thornton]

So I didn't know that about qemu.  I've been thinking about doing a Linux
from scratch for my pi Zero. I feel like qemu would be the tool to do that .

At the risk of forking the thread... anyone done that?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 9:18 AM Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 07:39:30PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> > This is where my confusion starts...
> >
> >     - I can run VirtualBox or QEMU, but not both at the same time.
>
> You can run qemu without -enable-kvm at the same time as virtualbox,
> but it is quite slow when run that way.  It is only when running kvm
> (which is qemu with -enable-kvm) that you can't run virtualbox (and
> probably not vmware either for that matter).  Only one vm system using
> vt-x can be enabled at a time.
>
> >     - VirtualBox can run with or without KVM modules.
>
> No apparently virtualbox can not run if kvm kernel modules are loaded.
>
> >     - QEMU requires KVM modules.
>
> Only if you run it with -enable-kvm.  Otherwise it does its own (slower)
> thing.
>
> > Current machine: i3 cpu, H97 chipset
>
> As far as I know all i3 chips have vt-x, so that should be fine.
>
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