VMs and shit

>>57694690
QEMU using KVM. Because the performance is excellent and lazy fucks like me can do all the configuration in the script used to start the VM rather than deal with a million config files.

Also the PCIe passthrough support is good for muh games.

>>57694690
ciao riky

VMware

>>57694690
QEMU/kvm with libvirt.

Easy to use, great performance, allows for GPU passthrough which I heavily utilize, open source, free.

VMWare is a good second choice or good if you're a Winshit user.

I personally use VMware, gets the job done. It also works fine with AMD drivers while with Virtualbox I have issues.

>>57695557
sauce ?

>>57697436
>>57694872
Ill give it a shot. VMware I've heard good things, but trying to get off of winshit.

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>>57699691
>but trying to get off of winshit.
Then think about doing a VGA passthrough setup.

>>57697436
I periodically try to switch to KVM from Virtualbox but I haven't gotten it to give acceptable performance for running a graphical desktop in the VM. (Not doing GPU passthrough, just running a second Linux in a VM for isolation/sandboxing)

>>57699956
Remember to install the Virtio drivers for those kinds of VMs. Otherwise you'll have a bad experience.

>>57694690
>Currently using Virtualbox. Not a huge fan, but its what my professor uses. Want to ditch it pretty bad though as it runs horrendously slow.

I'm goint to say VirtualBox.

I have a work laptop running windows running VirtualBox with a 2GB ram CentOS machine. Turns out the virtual machine was actually using only about 350 megs of ram, cool.

I have used both libvirt/quemu-kvm. It works fine and has good performance, but administration is a pain in the ass.

VirtualBox uses VTD end VTX instruction set, so performances are just fine.

Just don't use xen, it is a dead project and it's a near-impossible to setup without wasting a week reading the mostly-outdated documentation, and also requires special kernel and autistic shit.

+1 for libvirt stuff: it has scripts to automagically spawn a nearly configured ubuntu/debian vm

>>57699835
could you please link that arch guide

>>57700493
>>>57694690 (OP)
>Just don't use xen

I'm moving off Xen, but docs are fine if you can read a manpage. Also supports VTX. Kernel is custom but Xen is meant for dedicated hosting so not a problem

If you're on windows there's literally no reason not to use Hyper-V

>>57700665
https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-passthrough/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

Protip: Use vfio-pci. Do not use pci-stub as it is deprecated.

>>57695557
Bump for sauce