Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

["Randolph Maaßen" <r.maassen60@gmail.com>]

2013/7/30 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>:
> On 07/30/2013 10:11:54 AM, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using qemu-kvm for hoisting a Windows 7, but always typing the
>> long commandline is anoying, so I wrote a little script to start the
>> VM. I recently switched to libvirt and virt-manager, which do the
>> commandline work for me, and creatting new VMs or starting them is
>> quiet easy. This system also supports running the VM in background, if
>> this is important to you. It needs a couple of kernel modules to work,
>> but emerge will promt to you what it needs.
>>
>> I'm not on my gentoo machine at the moment, so I can't provide you
>> details on USE-flags, but I can say I have the QUEM_TAGET varables set
>> to i386, x86_64
>>
>
> Is it possible to convert the VirtualBox VDI file to one used by qemu-kvm?

If youn want to give qemu a try, you can open the VDI directly, or
convert it as described here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images

>
> Thanks,
> Helmut
>
>



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Randolph Maaßen