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Windows and OSX both come with native hypervisors now. Those are what eg Docker "Native" runs on
At least on Windows I find that Virtual box gives a better interactive desktop experience when running Linux as a guest.
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My personal laptop (1 GHz celleron) doesn't even have graphics drivers compiled and just uses the efi framebuffer. It's really great! It runs cool and performs well, software graphics are underrated. Just don't run ridiculous stuff like GNOME that's full of crazy animations every time you do something simple
Hmmm. I have a 2016-vintage celeron 3050 (think macbook, but $189 with half as many cores) and even on bare metal, web browsing is unusably slow without hw acceleration. Sites like HN load instantly, but amazon product pages take 10's of seconds after ~2 tabs. This is with firefox (they also broke 3d acceleration in linux); chrome is OK, and so is firefox if I force enable video acceleration and ignore the severe vis…
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vagrant is completely modular though... i use vagrant with libvirt/qemu at work for nested VMs
How do you set up a two-way synced directory in Vagrant without virtualbox? IME, you can't.
[0] https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt#synced-fo...
Without 3d support, basically no-one can use virtualbox, so is the dilemma whether to kill the project or not? (This is a serious question--what can possibly be more important to average virtualbox users than having a working desktop environment? Virtualbox has always occupied the desktop virtualization niche, so I'm trying to figure out what has changed...)
I use Virtualbox daily without ever using a desktop environment in the VM. It's very useful in headless form for development machines when working locally.
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How do you set up a two-way synced directory in Vagrant without virtualbox? IME, you can't.
"can't" is a strong word. why can't you do it in the user space within those VM's, communicating over a network adapter? If you don't care about putting on a raincoat, going outside to the Internet, and launching it up into the cloud, you can just install dropbox and get a sync'd directory without additional work. Obviously this is extra unnecessary overhead, two times, but for your use case you may not care. you can…
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How do you set up a two-way synced directory in Vagrant without virtualbox? IME, you can't.
I'm not a vagrant user, but your question intrigued me. A quick skim of the documentation for the vagrant-libvirt module shows a synced folders section[0], which appears to support configs for NFS and 9pfs for two-way sync. Do those not work? I use vanilla libvirt, and I've had great luck with exposing my development directories to VMs using the 9pfs resource sharing. If the vagrant plugin isn't doing that, then it m…
I see this as a vagrant issue though. It really falls short of its promise of being a dev environment where you "never say 'it works on my machine' again".
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There is no passthrough in LXC, because it is containerization, not virtualization. You are running the same kernel and kernel modules for both systems.
Yes, I had installed the Nvidia drivers on both the host system and the container. The CUDA programs run on the host, but didn't inside the container, even after creating the proper device nodes in /dev in the container.
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KVM isn't an option on OS X or Windows - in those cases, VirtualBox is the most mature free VM software available.
Windows and OSX both come with native hypervisors now. Those are what eg Docker "Native" runs on
If my VMs can't easily be run on any host from backup they tend to be quite useless at the most critical of times.
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My personal laptop (1 GHz celleron) doesn't even have graphics drivers compiled and just uses the efi framebuffer. It's really great! It runs cool and performs well, software graphics are underrated. Just don't run ridiculous stuff like GNOME that's full of crazy animations every time you do something simple
Hmmm. I have a 2016-vintage celeron 3050 (think macbook, but $189 with half as many cores) and even on bare metal, web browsing is unusably slow without hw acceleration. Sites like HN load instantly, but amazon product pages take 10's of seconds after ~2 tabs. This is with firefox (they also broke 3d acceleration in linux); chrome is OK, and so is firefox if I force enable video acceleration and ignore the severe vis…
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KVM isn't an option on OS X or Windows - in those cases, VirtualBox is the most mature free VM software available.
Windows and OSX both come with native hypervisors now. Those are what eg Docker "Native" runs on