[PATCH] Add a VirtualBox section to Handbook's 'Virtualization' chapter

[Tom Rhodes]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:02:59 +0300
Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr> wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> >
> >> But isn't qemu distinctly different in the way it works from a
> >> virtualization program like VMWare or VirtualBox? I think the first
> >> paragraph serves well as a gentle introduction to the topic.
> >
> > How different?  Wine, I could see, but qemu?  Please elaborate ...
> >
> 
> AFAIK qemu also provides processor emulation, thus is mostly referred to
> as an emulator rather than a virtual machine. I am no expert on this
> though - I've used qemu in the past but could never get the level of
> performance possible with VirtualBox or VMWare (which beats them both I
> believe).
> 
> The paragraph was loosely based on the original one stating "No
> virtualization solution for FreeBSD as a host". Seems the original
> author also did not consider qemu as a virtual machine in this sense.
> 

Interesting - see, I tried doing an install of qemu a long
while ago but never went beyond installing it.  Though, from
what I have read, I would not consider it a "virtual machine
host solution" either.  While I understand it runs image files,
I don't think it's geared for several OS images, running
concurrently.  Again, note, I only installed - and when the
image I had (passed by a friend) failed to run, I just removed
it.

In the end, my virtualization solution has been VMWare ESXi,
and VirtualBox only on a Linux host.  So, I reserve the right
to be wrong.  :P


-- 
Tom Rhodes