AmandaJun 15

Okay, Real Life #Question.

Virtualbox or QEMU? I don't do anything special, but would like to try a new emulator. Virtualbox works. However, my laptop has been having trouble with the last couple of releases. My workstation is in storage so I can't compare the difference between machines.

The 7.2.4 release had a problem with it pegging a CPU core at 100%.

The 7.2.8 branch screws with the Parcellite clipboard manager on the host machine (my laptop). I have to kill its process and relaunch it for it to function again. It also steps on Bluetooth somehow, but I've too distracted with the clipboard thing to be able to describe how.

#poll #VirtualMachine #Emulator

QEMU
92.3%
VirtualBox
7.7%
Poll ended at .
Show threadNazoJun 16

@pronounshe VirtalBox is owned by a bad company, they just haven't made it as bad as VMWare. Yet. So if you can switch to QEMU, you should.

That said, wow it's so much harder to use...

Show threadAmanda
@nazokiyoubinbou The parent company is indeed a driving reason for wanting to migrate. There are a lot of architectures in QEMU that I'll probably never need. Haven't spent too much time thinking about its difficulty, but the tinkering with something new also sounds fun.
Jun 16 at 4:52amWeb
Show threadNazoJun 16
@pronounshe I just wish they'd do a proper GUI. It's... 2026 and you still have to use dinky third party options for it.
Show threadAmandaJun 16
@nazokiyoubinbou Are those third-party options something like virt-manager that @tk mentioned?