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the big problem is the windows 3d driver. I need to use windows guest sometimes because some stupid adobe programs and I miss 3d and hate vmware
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Veerappan how are you finding libvirt?
i used to use qemu for juniper, esxi, etc etc.
Vagrant a little with VirtualBox lately and also Docker machine. Libvirt looked interesting but seemed more work and various blog posts unconvincing.
i like the theory of it though!
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Originally posted by waxhead View PostThis makes me wonder what happened with the "VirtualBox kernel driver is tained crap"
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This is another driver of course, but have all the issues here been sorted out? Does anyone know?
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Originally posted by ryszardzonk View Post
Running most recent version of VB on 4.14.11 Gentoo host kernel it says following
[ 2.645176] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 2.646792] vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores
[ 2.662246] vboxdrv: TSC mode is Invariant, tentative frequency 4007989546 Hz
[ 2.662248] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 5.2.4 (interface 0x00290000)
However my experience running windows guests on it is outstanding comparing to vmware where only thing not working for me is nvme driver https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17228 while on vmware literally nothing worked (disk issues, no 3d accel on intel video, sound crippling, etc...) and officially it has been nning removed from Gentoo few months back https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-...ht-vmware.html . To install vmware-player 14.0 and corresponding vmware-tools I had to create my own ebuilds as none of the overlays had it. I admit 14.0 was a bit of less crap than 12.8, but still unusable to the point that I did not to even bother post ebuilds for them in the bugzilla.
Over Christmas week, when everyone was out on vacation, I finally took the time to figure out that machine owner keys can't be loaded into my thinkpad's EFI via mokutil, and it was easiest to just give up on virtual box altogether. My Vagrant VMs are all now running in libvirt without issue, and it took about 5 lines of configuration for each project I work on to make the change (porting over cpu/ram settings).
Next up, trying to convert over a windows 7 pro retail install that is still in vbox and will probably break it's validation if I change virtualization providers.
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Originally posted by waxhead View PostThis makes me wonder what happened with the "VirtualBox kernel driver is tained crap"
[ 2.645176] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 2.646792] vboxdrv: Found 8 processor cores
[ 2.662246] vboxdrv: TSC mode is Invariant, tentative frequency 4007989546 Hz
[ 2.662248] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 5.2.4 (interface 0x00290000)
However my experience running windows guests on it is outstanding comparing to vmware where only thing not working for me is nvme driver https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17228 while on vmware literally nothing worked (disk issues, no 3d accel on intel video, sound crippling, etc...) and officially it has been removed from Gentoo few months back https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-...ht-vmware.html . To install vmware-player 14.0 and corresponding vmware-tools I had to create my own ebuilds as none of the overlays had it. I admit 14.0 was a bit of less crap than 12.8, but still unusable to the point that I did not to even bother post ebuilds for them in the bugzilla.
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This makes me wonder what happened with the "VirtualBox kernel driver is tained crap"
Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite
This is another driver of course, but have all the issues here been sorted out? Does anyone know?
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Is any work being done to get vboxvideo to work with Wayland guests?
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Guest repliedGreat job!
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