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VirtualBox DRM/KMS Graphics Driver Being Prepped For Mainline Kernel
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Originally posted by artyom.h31 View PostGood news. However, recent versions of VirtualBox are quite unstable in my experience, so I'm looking for an alternative.
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I find this interesting. I thought that Virtualbox was a dying project. Not that it *is* dead, but in the process of dying. Perhaps I just got the wrong impression.
Anyway, I'd like to use Gnome Boxes, but last time I tried it didn't support multiple screens. And the GUI options were rather limited. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know how to do that
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Originally posted by ehansin View PostDoes this mean when running Linux as a VirtualBox guest we can now use Wayland? That would be awesome. Maybe this addresses something else, but if fixed that would be very cool.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13471
Last time i tried you could run weston on it. It had its issues though.
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Huh, I thought it was already mainline...
The host driver, on the other hand, would be nice to have upstream.
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Originally posted by artyom.h31 View PostAs far as I can remember, it doesn't support snapshots.
The rest of your criticisms may still be valid, but haven't bothered me.
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Does this mean when running Linux as a VirtualBox guest we can now use Wayland? That would be awesome. Maybe this addresses something else, but if fixed that would be very cool.
Last edited by ehansin; 09 June 2017, 12:27 PM.
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if this happens, I could probably enable CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS in my kernel
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Originally posted by artyom.h31 View Post
Yeah, KVM/virt-manager is a very nice project, but it doesn't have a 3D acceleration (virgl is still unusable). As far as I can remember, it doesn't support snapshots. A proper support of OVF is lacking too. The GUI is not on par with VirtualBox. Gnome Box looks better, but it lacks some features.
I have also tried VMWare Player, and it feels so heavy.
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Originally posted by mmstick View Post
QEMU/KVM works just fine with virt-manager.
I have also tried VMWare Player, and it feels so heavy.
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