From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2A51381F3 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9C05E08BB; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6DDBCE07FE for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id u55so4951097wes.27 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:49:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gUUaEDiVwiB4IsYBdjUBrVXSwvVXd5wPe1RhdL9PJ2A=; b=wh3HOzRxLFcNRdVwZNS1aJjahWHkUvf29fOmwOsRZ4LbMdYE3i/Z6spkfTtfUHi0uU pQjFmQ0DKwxmTNdHpoD8dkUAXw9AA51+2i2kqUkKByc3O2E7V1xz0hvkilo8kWbgmuhJ EZTVdZnqAy+2xd67oaPYGlYvXFT6NMTW6v2yj4HnYm5hJPh8ql7eIWpdzdVWIbJ8Acyv Q6fNamgxKYhhsSdWBuaYhxKdjs1b48p9Si0RDDB4SOL4TgNU/VVgF9ns6zggYlsqxj4V Lk1Rb7TJOQUYUn2TpXx8l9JFmxOpZZRXRC+xmEJ2I2rXcME0qnAlkLDJy3UySXVVkt6T qlhg== 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 X-Received: by 10.195.13.202 with SMTP id fa10mr45217724wjd.14.1375177790530; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.12.45 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:49:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1375176012.14240.1@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> References: <1375166739.14240.0@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> <1375176012.14240.1@numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:49:50 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Randolph_Maa=DFen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bdcb8bd9-cf43-40d6-a4fc-e6d787345995 X-Archives-Hash: 6b1d182219e945ccac6a406f7dc019f4 2013/7/30 Helmut Jarausch : > On 07/30/2013 10:11:54 AM, Randolph Maa=DFen 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 > > --=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen / Best regards Randolph Maa=DFen