On 4 June 2014 14:36, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:01:33PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
Windows. If GNOME Boxes, libvirt, etc. is installed by default then
I'll
remove it and install VirtualBox. That's not because I prefer VBox - I don't at all - but because Microsoft provides images for VBox and
making
them work nicely with libvirt is a hassle I can do without.
This is a very good use case, thanks for bringing this up. Is there anything we could do to make it easier for you? I know VirtualBox distributes their stuff upstream in rpm format, but compiles parts of it (the kernel modules) after installation. Would it make it easier to set up VirtualBox if we included the kernel-devel and gcc packages in the default install?
Or alternately, can we make it so those provided VBox images _just work_ with our open virtualization software?
Yep, that'd be great.
When I first set-up my system I was using libvirt to run a sandbox VM (I needed an Ubuntu server :( ). When I learned of the MSIE VMs and downloaded one I was optimistic about being able to run it using libvirt: those images are OVAs. It took quite some effort to research how to convert the format, and when I finally managed it I had terrible display resolution and Windows was complaining about not being Genuine. All this was incidental to my actual work, so I took the faster route and moved my sandbox VM over to VBox.
I'd happily have continued to use Fedora's default open virtualisation software, except that I had work to do and it wasn't helping me do that.