<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Scott Doty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@corp.sonic.net">scott@corp.sonic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Andrew wrote:<br>
> Scott Doty wrote on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:38:01 -0800:<br>
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>> <a href="http://ponzo.net/newshawk/win7-2.png" target="_blank">http://ponzo.net/newshawk/win7-2.png</a><br>
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> Looks like that's using QEMU.<br>
I should have explained: Fedora 10 (specifically, libvirt and virt-manager)<br>
use qemu to provide kvm. (And virt-manager doesn't give you a choice of<br>
anything else, when creating a virt & you can run kvm.)<br>
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> Here it is under VirtualBox:<br>
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> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/fatbloke/entry/windows_7_on_virtualbox" target="_blank">http://blogs.sun.com/fatbloke/entry/windows_7_on_virtualbox</a><br>
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Nice. :)<br>
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The first screenshot shows "VT-x/AMD-V: Disabled", and later on, the<br>
blog goes on to talk<br>
about a "guest additions" installation. If I understand it correctly,<br>
the nice thing<br>
about kvm (or kvm via qemu, or any other Vanderpool CPU support) is that you<br>
don't need anything special in the virt itself to get it to work, it is<br>
"fully virtualized".<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I don't get a full virtual machine with my CPU using either system. (AMD 3500+, Fedora 10) My experience is that VirtualBox works better on my system, but maybe it's because I tried to use kvm a few versions back. Maybe it got better. I'm not sure why xVM uses the guest additions on the virtual machines, but they do come with the package and are easy to add on once you read the manual and know they're useful. <br>
<br>I suspect that it all depends on what you're using it for. If my CPU would support a true virtual machine, then kvm would give me a true sandbox where I could test out new distros before I committed them to my machine. What I used xVM for most recently, is to run an old genealogy program under Fedora 8 (that wouldn't run under 10) and convert the databases to a format that would run on the g-program that -would- run under 10. For things like that and running apps that just need a different O/S, xVM is lots easier for me to use.<br clear="all">
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