From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RSwlo-0001S7-87 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:16:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96DE421C083; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.desaster-games.net (dns1.desaster-games.net [188.40.122.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCBA21C06E for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.desaster-games.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C5210285A4 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:15:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Amavis at mail.desaster-games.com Received: from mail.desaster-games.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.desaster-games.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kW945fk1GHfe for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:15:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.159.0.8] (main.felix.desaster-games.net [10.159.0.8]) by mail.desaster-games.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39B07102859E for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:15:57 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4ECC0297.2080503@desaster-games.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 From: Felix Kuperjans Organization: Desaster Games e.V. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111030 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ac20dca-b607-42f6-9310-d64a41b5d455 X-Archives-Hash: c85161915312550abcf97692cb87afbc 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 >