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Ask HN: Which tools are you using for Virtual Machines?

• stop50 3y ago
  Virt-manager
  • isrl 3y ago
    do you have spesific reasons? why not vbox,quickemu, etc
    • stop50 3y ago
      Because i manage machines with libvirtd over ssh, virtualbox and others don't connect via ssh to servers
    • stop50 3y ago
      its an ui for libvirt, so you can configure a lot.
• Newtonip 3y ago
  At home, I use VMware Player and BlueStacks under Windows. In Linux, a just straight up use Qemu. I have shell scripts to launch my different VMs with the appropriate parameters. At work I use Qemu for Windows with batch files to launch my VMs. I have hyper v enabled and Qemu performs quite well using the whp accelerator. My workplace doesn't want to pay for a solution and the IT department is so paranoid about VirtualBox that they have a tool that periodically scans our laptop and automatically uninstalls it if it's detected.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  At work, I use a few different ones, but primarily VMWare and Hyper-V. At home, I don't use any.
• BrittonR 3y ago
  Microvm.nix with cloud-hypervisor
  • astro1 3y ago
    Me too
• tkiolp4 3y ago
  Multipass.
• stephenr 3y ago
  I guess it depends how you define "using". Day to day I generally favour Parallels via Vagrant; But I also use VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox semi-regularly via Packer to build vagrant base boxes (https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant/ https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant/)
• EveryPizza 3y ago
  I used VMWare Workstation until I noticed everyone was leaving VMWare, so I followed suit and switched to VirtualBox.