[ale] VirtualBox v6 vs KVM Performance

[Chuck Payne]

Raj,

I do that with my laptop, I have my wireless brigade, I am running openSUSE
with yeast it is easy

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 10:49 AM Horkan Smith via Ale <ale at ale.org wrote:

> Hi Raj,
>
> I might be missing what you're trying to do, but I use KVM pretty
> frequently while I'm on wifi.  If you're using -net user (the default) the
> guest just sees a wired nic w/ a 10.x address that's NAT'ed to whatever
> internet the host is using currently.
>
> Whenever I feel the need to crank up a VM'd copy of knoppix, I run this
> script:
>
> ---cut here----
>
> KNOPISO=/sdata/cdroms/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V7.0.4CD-2012-08-20-EN.iso
>
> #
> echo knoppix hsync=300 vsync=300 screen=1680x1050
> #
> kvm \
>  -monitor stdio \
>  -boot d \
>  -cdrom $KNOPISO \
>  -m 1024 \
>  -vga std \
>  -usb \
>  -usbdevice tablet \
>  -net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0 \
>  $*
>
> ---cut here----
>
> Different distros and package selections have varied the actual command to
> invoke kvm over the years - try 'qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm' if using
> 'kvm' by itself doesn't work.
>
> There are a *lot* of other networking options for qemu/kvm.  Let me know
> if you need something fancier and I'll try to help.
>
> If you're trying to directly control the wifi card from the guest...
> that's going to be harder.  I haven't done it, but you might be able to
> treat the host's wifi card as an external USB or PCI device and grant
> control to the guest that way.
>
> later!
>    horkan
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 09:15:34AM -0500, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale wrote:
> >I like an really want to use KVM on my laptop (big-beefy Lenovo with 32
> GB)
> >but I struggle to get KVM to work with the wireless NIC.  After a few
> hours,
> >I gave up and installed VirtualBox (sigh).
> >
> >Yes... I know... KVM is really meant for wired "servers".  Maybe I'm
> missing
> >something obvious.
> >
> >/Raj
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale
> >Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 6:25 AM
> >To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> >Subject: [ale] VirtualBox v6 vs KVM Performance
> >
> >The short answer is to use KVM if you care at all about performance.
> >https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-kvm
> >
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