Virtual-Machine-Manager on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/virtual-machine-manager/ Recent content in Virtual-Machine-Manager on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:49:19 +0000 Oracle's Virtualbox vs Red Hat's Virtual Machine Manager https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2011/12/21/oracles-virtualbox-vs-red-hats-virtual-machine-manager/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:49:19 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2011/12/21/oracles-virtualbox-vs-red-hats-virtual-machine-manager/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been using Virtualbox for a long time to run virtual machines when I want to check out other distros before I install them on one of my computers or to review them.  It&rsquo;s MOSTLY open source, although some of the key parts like USB 2.0 are free to use, but not open source.  So now that Red Hat&rsquo;s Virtual Machine Manager is starting to look pretty useful I figured I should check it out.  That way I could be using a FLOSS virtual machine program - assuming the features were good enough to match Oracle&rsquo;s offerings.  Also, Virtualbox requires a kernel module that has to be recompiled every time a new kernel is installed and that&rsquo;s annoying.  I figured I&rsquo;d test out both programs by installed a VM of Centos.</p>

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