On 26 Oct 2023 21:37 +0500, from avbe...@gmail.com (Alexander V. Makartsev): > I don't use virtualbox (KVM does everything and more for me) so I can't > vouch for the quality of packages from Oracle.
I switched from VirtualBox to KVM at one point; as I recall a Debian kernel upgrade broke VirtualBox and still after two weeks or so Oracle hadn't updated their for-Debian repository with a version that incorporated a fix. (This was the respective "stable" versions at the time, and while I don't recall the details, the breakage made VirtualBox useless for my use case.) I had planned to do such a migration anyway; the breakage just somewhat forced the issue. KVM/QEMU/virt-manager and friends perhaps aren't as streamlined for the typical end user who just wants to quickly spin up a VM with minimal hassle, but they are also very much more powerful if you're willing to do a little reading. (For example, I had to do a fair bit of digging to figure out how to get guest networking to work reliably without turning off the host firewall.[1]) This is in line with their respective intended usage: VirtualBox is at best a power user tool, whereas KVM is intended for large server deployments but _can_ be used on workstation virtualization hosts as well. [1] https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2022/linux-kvm-host-nftables-guest-networking/ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
