[ale] Fedora 24, VirtualBox, and Guest Additions

Sergio Chaves sergio.chaves at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 11:20:32 EDT 2016


I will definitely look at the presentations. Thanks for the info.

On Jul 20, 2016 11:06 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> On 07/20/2016 07:13 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > I don't use virtual box as kvm and virtmanager are quite capable tools
> that ship
> > with fedora.
> >
>
> I stopped using vbox when KVM + NX become so great that it wasn't worth the
> hassles of dealing with Oracle's licensing.  The core stuff license isn't
> bad.
> The last time I looked, the guest additions licensing was less than ideal
> for my
> needs.
>
> OTOH, if Windows is the hostOS, I still think vbox is the least evil
> option.
>
> virt-manager does work fine for creating a Win7 VM.  I'd recommend using
> RDP
> from that point on **from the same LAN only**. I've never seen/touched
> anything
> from MSFT after Win7.  A few years ago, I would give presentations on
> tuning
> Windows VMs (vbox or KVM as the hosts). Think those presentations are
> still on
> the web somewhere.  The only thing that needs careful consideration is the
> disk
> setup if it isn't on an SSD.  I've seen 50% performance differences with
> the
> wrong vHDD choices/setup.
>
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