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Alternatives to VirtualBox? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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VirtualBox is ridiculously simple to set up and get virtual machines going. Shared folders, shared clipboard and much more are no issue.

But.

It eats resources. The installed virtual machines (VM) run relatively slow. What have you found to be feature comparable - and most importantly more resource-efficient - alternatives for running VMs under Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Under Linux, the recommended route is KVM/Qemu, with Virt-Manager as the GUI front-end for them. You will need to follow tutorials to install it correctly, as it requires special steps, e.g. adding them to specific usergroups. But once it works, it works well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Not for the faint of heart, but I'll keep it in mind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

definitely not as easy as virtualbox

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Yes, I just switched to Qemu. Its great.

This video helped:

https://youtu.be/BgZHbCDFODk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Yea, the installation isn't too difficult. Looking at my groups as well I think it's only the libvirt group that you have to add a user to for KVM/QEMU with Virt-Manager, but the same could be said for VirtualBox as I believe you have to still add the user to the vboxusers group if you were to install it instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I recall I had to do like one thing to get it working outside of just apt install but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I just put the error in a web search and found what was needed to deal with it.