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One thing is missing comparing to virtualbox, is the bridge-mode especially when host uses wireless which is very common these days. virtualbox hacked bridge-m

One thing is missing comparing to virtualbox, is the bridge-mode especially when host uses wireless which is very common these days. virtualbox hacked bridge-mode and made it working well all the time, with libvirt/qemu/kvm you will need write a lot of scripts and click around to set this up. This is the sole reason I had to stick with virtualbox these years.

MuffinFlavored 6y ago
I'm a big VirtualBox fan as well and I'm sad to see that Apple M1 (ARM) support isn't really a priority.
- numbsafari 6y ago
  I get the impression Oracle is killing VirtualBox through neglect.
2ion 6y ago
Then you need to compare to the (for non-commercial use free ) vmware workstation (player) as well. - Simple OpenGL accelerated guest graphics (alternatives: intel gvt-g, card passthrough, virgl in qemu (not generally available), SPICE+qxl in qemu (not nearly as performant)) - bridged networking "just works" - open-vm-tools enable quite an interesting array of comfortable guest integration - disk image format can be handled by qemu-img for conversion purposes, so it's easy to migrate vmware <> virtualbox <> qemu+kvm. The graphics part is why for desktop VMs, I prefer the vmware solution at the moment.
neurostimulant 6y ago
This is the main virtualbox feature I sorely missed running kvm. Is there any easy way to configure bridge mode on kvm? I didn't dig too much because I also run docker and kubernetes on the same machine and I don't want to break their network config accidentally.
VMtest 6y ago
If anyone knows how to setup the bridge with wireless in libvirt/qemu/kvm following the steps with/without ebtables listed in Debian and Arch wiki, please do tell 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Network_sharing_between_physical_device_and_a_Tap_device_through_iptables https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Network_sharing_be... 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge#Wireless_interface_on_a_bridge https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge#Wireless... 3. https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_with_a_wireless_NIC https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_wi...
zamadatix 6y ago
For 99% of the people that want "bridged mode" ipvlan should work with minimal config needed. For the other 1% it gets more hairy.

MuffinFlavored 6y ago

I'm a big VirtualBox fan as well and I'm sad to see that Apple M1 (ARM) support isn't really a priority.

numbsafari 6y ago
I get the impression Oracle is killing VirtualBox through neglect.

2ion 6y ago

Then you need to compare to the (for non-commercial use free ) vmware workstation (player) as well. - Simple OpenGL accelerated guest graphics (alternatives: intel gvt-g, card passthrough, virgl in qemu (not generally available), SPICE+qxl in qemu (not nearly as performant)) - bridged networking "just works" - open-vm-tools enable quite an interesting array of comfortable guest integration - disk image format can be handled by qemu-img for conversion purposes, so it's easy to migrate vmware <> virtualbox <> qemu+kvm. The graphics part is why for desktop VMs, I prefer the vmware solution at the moment.

neurostimulant 6y ago

This is the main virtualbox feature I sorely missed running kvm. Is there any easy way to configure bridge mode on kvm? I didn't dig too much because I also run docker and kubernetes on the same machine and I don't want to break their network config accidentally.

VMtest 6y ago

If anyone knows how to setup the bridge with wireless in libvirt/qemu/kvm following the steps with/without ebtables listed in Debian and Arch wiki, please do tell 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Network_sharing_between_physical_device_and_a_Tap_device_through_iptables https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Network_sharing_be... 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge#Wireless_interface_on_a_bridge https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge#Wireless... 3. https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_with_a_wireless_NIC https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_wi...

zamadatix 6y ago

For 99% of the people that want "bridged mode" ipvlan should work with minimal config needed. For the other 1% it gets more hairy.