I use vmware and qemu

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    3 months ago

    None, I use Docker for Linux, and Proton (Heroic) for Windows.

    But if I had to pick a virtual machine: libvirt with virt-manager as a frontend, which uses KVM for virtualization.

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    Currently virt-manager on top of qemu/kvm on Debian 12. It was the easiest to get to emulate a TPM on my ancient hardware (9ish years old, but still powerful).

    I’m learning enough about the backend that I’m hoping to get off the Redhat maintained software and only use the qemu cli, maybe write my own monitor with rust-vmm when I learn enough rust to do so.

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    If I’m running another Linux distro that will be happy under the host kernel then I use LXD (or Incus) containers. Otherwise it’s QEMU+KVM or occasionally Virtual Box.

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      I use LXD (or Incus) containers

      I’ve been curious about those for a while, what are they about, are they somehow better than the usual Docker/Podman conatiners?

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        They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.

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    I tried using virt-manager+kvm to try some stuff out the other day but I failed to set-up some crucial things. Probably me being incompetent.

    Not like virtualization is a big part of my life anyway. I just wanted to try some other distros and such without rebooting.

    If I were to get serious about virtualization I’d need to build a new PC with a second GPU. Then I could stop dual-booting and do everything with VMs. But it’d only be worth it to get serious about learning how to virtualize stuff if I were to do that.

    • Mwas alt (prob)@thelemmy.clubOP
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      3 months ago

      You can single pass through but it feels more like your using one os but if that’s the case wouldn’t dual booting be better

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    3 months ago

    Qemu+Kvm with virt-manager is my boy nowadays. But I’m not a heavy user of Vms, just experimented with this to build some Flatpak. But plan on trying out other distributions, just for science. It wasn’t easy to figure out how to share a folder, and I could not get drag and drop or clipboard share to work. Still though, its faster than any other solution. I used VirtualBox in the past, which was easy to work with.

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    3 months ago

    xcp-ng. except now everything is just containers on atomic fedora because it seems to fit my laziness better and doesn’t require updating multiple vm os’s

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    3 months ago

    Raw qemu at the command line for the one I use on a daily basis (not recommended for the average user). VirtualBox if I need to spin something up quickly but don’t expect to need to keep it past the current testing cycle.

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      3 months ago

      Virtualbox is slow and the licensing for guest addons is nasty. It is proprietary of course and if a person in a company uses it unlicensed they will send the company a massive invoice.

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        I only need it for the very occasional testing of open-source software on Windows, using the precanned VM images provided by Microsoft (last I checked, they had none for qemu, or I would be using that instead). And if you’re using software commercially, you’d better be damned sure you understand the licensing before setting up. A company of any size will have lawyers vetting that anyway.

        In other words, I don’t disagree with you, but those issues don’t matter for my use case.

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      Thanks for the pointer. But since Proxmox supports both KVM and LXC virtualization, wouldn’t that make it both type 1 and type 2?

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      3 months ago

      I use Proxmox for the machine that I use to download all of the Linux ISOs I want. You know, with a VPN, through BitTorrent. Linux ISOs.

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      Proxmox isn’t really its own hypervisor. It combines a few common projects to make a OS. It is pretty much KVM with corosync for clustering.

      With that being said it is a solid platform. Just keep in mind it is just standard Linux virtualization and for single nodes you can get the exact same setup easily on any Linux system.

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        Well, the exact same except for the frontend. It’s arguably better than virt-manager imo. I wonder how hard it would be to get pve-manager running outside the OS.

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          3 months ago

          You absolutely can. People have done Proxmox installs on Debian and unsupported architectures by building from source.

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    3 months ago

    So far I’ve been fine with some Oracle Virtualbox and some using the VM Manager that was in my distro or maybe I downloaded it. It’s just called Virtual Machine Manager made by Red Hat. Libvirt.

    Between those I’ve been able to do everything I have needed.