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Pointy-clicky GUI for people who don't live the #VMLife and just occasionally want to throw some graphical OS in a VM and mess around in it for a few minutes, w
by shantly 7y ago
Pointy-clicky GUI for people who don't live the #VMLife and just occasionally want to throw some graphical OS in a VM and mess around in it for a few minutes, without having to read any man pages. I know Qemu has GUI interfaces available, but the key there is that it's plural, as in there's more than one. VBox is just the one, entire thing, all one part, no thinking required or choices to make, just start it and go.
(for the record I've done some Linux KVM/Libvirt management of VMs on servers so I'm not entirely without a clue, but VBox runs everywhere I am and is my go-to for low value messing about, especially now that all that stuff has long ago fallen out of my head. If I had to do anything serious or non-interactive I'd not be looking at VirtualBox for it.)
- ricardojoaoreis 7y agoI used VirtualBox and the last time I installed Linux I gave Gnome Boxes a try to run a Windows VM every once in a while and I haven’t felt the need to go back to VirtualBox.