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Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#11

Post by codemusings » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:16 AM UTC

frankjr wrote: post #10

Any chance this gets upstreamed?

I mean it's Oracle we're talking about here.

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#12

Post by Y-bar » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:16 AM UTC

szszrk wrote: post #7

Y-bar wrote: post #3

I have ever only heard KVM in the context of a Keyboard Video Monitor-type device but somehow I can't fully fit that into the concept of a virtual machine. Does it mean something different here?

Yes, quite different. It's basically a project that allows you to use Linux as a hypervisor. A very popular project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine

Thanks!

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#13

Post by bradwood » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:21 AM UTC

What does this give me that I don't already get from KVM and virt-manager on Linux? Not getting it.

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#14

Post by davb » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:28 AM UTC

The blog post mentions an open source license but I can’t immediately see it in the post or the repo (perhaps I’m just missing it). Any idea what license this is released under?

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

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Post by ylere » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:36 AM UTC

davb wrote: post #14

The blog post mentions an open source license but I can’t immediately see it in the post or the repo (perhaps I’m just missing it). Any idea what license this is released under?

It seems to be a fork of VirtualBox under the same dual license as the original project.

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#16

Post by Daviey » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:38 AM UTC

davb wrote: post #14

The blog post mentions an open source license but I can’t immediately see it in the post or the repo (perhaps I’m just missing it). Any idea what license this is released under?

https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/blob/de...

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#17

Post by kiney » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:38 AM UTC

bradwood wrote: post #13

What does this give me that I don't already get from KVM and virt-manager on Linux? Not getting it.

A decent UI and hopefully support to use virtualbox appliances

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#18

Post by ilogik » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:40 AM UTC

codemusings wrote: post #11

frankjr wrote: post #10

Any chance this gets upstreamed?

I mean it's Oracle we're talking about here.

"What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle."

Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1980s

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#19

Post by sph » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:44 AM UTC

Finally!

Every time I need to run a virtual machine, I choose libvirt because it's more performant and easy to deal with than Virtualbox (no kernel module, etc.), but the GUI choices are pretty terrible. The "best" libvirt GUI is virt-manager and it's very, very buggy and lacking features (i.e. doesn't play nice with HiDPI screens, no way of configuring IPv6, etc.)

Many times I have caved and chosen VirtualBox simply because at least it feels nice to use, even if not as performant as libvirt/kvm. Not anymore!

Re: VirtualBox KVM Public Release

#20

Post by davb » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 11:45 AM UTC

Daviey wrote: post #16

davb wrote: post #14

The blog post mentions an open source license but I can’t immediately see it in the post or the repo (perhaps I’m just missing it). Any idea what license this is released under?

https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/blob/de...

That appears to be the VirtualBox OSE license, copied from the original Oracle package, not the license for this specific release. It’s unclear how this new derivative or work is licensed.