VirtualBox DRM/KMS Graphics Driver Being Prepped For Mainline Kernel

[rastersoft]

Hans de Goede has taken the driver from 52,861 lines of code down to 7,275 lines

Whaaaaaaaaaat?????????????????????

[starshipeleven]

Good news. However, recent versions of VirtualBox are quite unstable in my experience, so I'm looking for an alternative.

Could you define "quite unstable"? as I use it heavily (ver 5.1.22 SUSE) and I don't see any instability.

[franglais125]

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

[89c51]

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.

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13471

Last time i tried you could run weston on it. It had its issues though.

[GreatEmerald]

Huh, I thought it was already mainline...
The host driver, on the other hand, would be nice to have upstream.

[adler187]

As far as I can remember, it doesn't support snapshots.

It's supported snapshots since 1.0: http://blog.wikichoon.com/2014/03/sn...t-manager.html

The rest of your criticisms may still be valid, but haven't bothered me.

[ehansin]

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.

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13471

[pouar]

if this happens, I could probably enable CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS in my kernel

[bug77]

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.

Go Docker

[artyom.h31]

QEMU/KVM works just fine with virt-manager.

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.