Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100
Felix Kuperjans <felix@desaster-games.com> wrote:

> > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be
> > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need.  
> VirtualBox is quite easy for beginners, but requires external kernel
> modules and requires a GUI (what you most probably want anyway).

That's not true.

VBoxHeadless implements practically everything you can do in the gui,
and the built-in RDP server lets you connect from other machines so the
host doesn't need to run a gui either.

A GUI is strongly recommended, some thing are just easier with
pointy-clicky, but it's far from required.

External kernel modules are no big deal either. You need the same with
VMWare. It's just a package you emerge and modules-rebuild is there to
help you remember what must be rebuilt with every kernel build. These
days you have to do the same with xorg-modules whenever you upgrade
Xorg, so even that is not an issue anymore.

-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com