From: Felix Kuperjans <felix@desaster-games.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECC0297.2080503@desaster-games.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm>
Hi Alan,
Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with
> virtual machines on my Gentoo.
>
> I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in
> directory "virtual", yet found nothing likely looking.
Virtual machines are all in /usr/portage/app-emulation, not in virtual
(that is for virtual packages).
> 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).
KVM (maybe with virt-manager as a GUI) is quite powerful for desktop
virtualization, but requires processor support (but it is available on
all recent (Core2 oder newer) non-Atom CPUs by Intel and AFAIK all
recent AMD CPUs) and the kernel modules (but they are real upstream
modules and very stable).
Xen is the most advanced solution, but maybe not the best one to play
around. But it's supported by virt-manager, too.
>
> TVM
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 19:20 [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 19:38 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-22 19:43 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 20:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 12:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-23 13:54 ` Marc Joliet
2011-11-23 13:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 14:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-23 9:17 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 11:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 11:45 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 12:20 ` Joseph Davis
2011-11-23 12:59 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 13:57 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-11-23 13:51 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-23 15:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:27 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-22 22:47 ` [gentoo-user] " William Kenworthy
2011-11-23 13:01 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-23 15:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-23 15:29 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-23 15:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-22 20:14 ` Felix Kuperjans [this message]
2011-11-22 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-22 22:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-11-22 23:14 ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-22 23:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-22 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Albert W. Hopkins
2011-11-22 21:14 ` kashani
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