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 1RSwHR-0001ut-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 723A821C0E3; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018C421C087 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkaq10 with SMTP id q10so759811bka.40 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:43:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=hUOq/8HA3b1ygc5nbXPxDDW1y03WYaUH905tk39OeRw=; b=ToEJMnSrmHXpv5UgDYhAQzg8aDnewAdwGnbyqnxfN3aOPXlgz5bUx77r+OhtTxbffS 1MawZ92V6H1E+bzZlepqd2i+gB0KYs78QqsDhyx37B5V7mHjOoDiYP6+4DpSIMYMcdLb 1fvbRc9TrSg2nYfqCzG0bRjDSnRp55yVYqSBo= 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 Received: by 10.204.155.152 with SMTP id s24mr20750066bkw.5.1321990990726; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.114.75 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:43:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:10 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 9a12733c-379a-4141-90e4-e12ddddb51c3 X-Archives-Hash: a53c971651c7506f003b6ac4351379be On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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. > > Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be > looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. I've heard you should stay away from virtualbox, due to instability from their kernel modules. Apart from that, make sure your kernel has kvm support enabled. >From there, you can either try playing with Xen (I've got my Gentoo desktop as my dom0), libvirt, qemu-kvm or vmware-workstation. I haven't tried any of the latter three on Gentoo, and I haven't tried vmware on Linux at *all*. I can't make a good recommendation for which would suit you best. Perhaps someone else could make a suggestion or two. -- :wq