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I think it makes sense to depend on the "native" virtualization solutions for each operating system (Hyper-V and xhyve). We have been using Vagrant and Virtual

I think it makes sense to depend on the "native" virtualization solutions for each operating system (Hyper-V and xhyve). We have been using Vagrant and VirtualBox heavily and the new Docker for Windows/Mac is making us reconsider that since you can't easily use more than one hypervisor on the same dev machine without some hassle. We might be building our Vagrant boxes for these other hypervisors soon. VirtualBox still seems easier to work with but there isn't anything much exciting happening with it lately. Let's see...

amorphid 10y ago
I believe xhyve works fine with recent versions of VirtualBox, since xhyve is a pure userland app (aka no kernel extensions). Check out the issues section in the xhyve readme... https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/blob/master/README.md
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- sigjuice 10y ago
  xhyve needs to interact with all kinds of low-level things so there has to be kernel code involved. xhyve does not install kernel extensions of its own like VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion. xhyve uses the kernel extensions provided by Apple (com.apple.driver.AppleHV and possibly others).
  - amorphid 10y ago
    Ah, that makes sense. It doesn't install anything extensions of it's own, only using the kernel bits provided by Hypervisor.framework.
RussianCow 10y ago
In my experience, Windows is the only OS that makes it difficult to run multiple different hypervisors. I'm running multiple on my Linux and OS X machines without problems.
- toyg 10y ago
  Virtualbox and Vmware Fusion on Mac also don't like each other, in my experience.
fulafel 10y ago
It's sad that Vagrant is so married to VirtualBox in practice. VirtualBox on Linux is especially bad (crashy kernel drivers). (Yes, I know there theoretically exist different Vagrant backends, but Vagrantfiles and public images are married to specific backend so all the reasons to use Vagrant tie it to VB)
- sciurus 10y ago
  Have you tried using vagrant-libvirt on Linux? You can convert public images to run on it using vagrant-mutate. https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt https://github.com/sciurus/vagrant-mutate https://github.com/sciurus/vagrant-mutate

amorphid 10y ago

I believe xhyve works fine with recent versions of VirtualBox, since xhyve is a pure userland app (aka no kernel extensions). Check out the issues section in the xhyve readme... https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/mist64/xhyve/blob/master/README.md

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sigjuice 10y ago
xhyve needs to interact with all kinds of low-level things so there has to be kernel code involved. xhyve does not install kernel extensions of its own like VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion. xhyve uses the kernel extensions provided by Apple (com.apple.driver.AppleHV and possibly others).
- amorphid 10y ago
  Ah, that makes sense. It doesn't install anything extensions of it's own, only using the kernel bits provided by Hypervisor.framework.

RussianCow 10y ago

In my experience, Windows is the only OS that makes it difficult to run multiple different hypervisors. I'm running multiple on my Linux and OS X machines without problems.

toyg 10y ago
Virtualbox and Vmware Fusion on Mac also don't like each other, in my experience.

fulafel 10y ago

It's sad that Vagrant is so married to VirtualBox in practice. VirtualBox on Linux is especially bad (crashy kernel drivers). (Yes, I know there theoretically exist different Vagrant backends, but Vagrantfiles and public images are married to specific backend so all the reasons to use Vagrant tie it to VB)

sciurus 10y ago
Have you tried using vagrant-libvirt on Linux? You can convert public images to run on it using vagrant-mutate. https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt https://github.com/sciurus/vagrant-mutate https://github.com/sciurus/vagrant-mutate