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Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

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On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird
> maze of fiddling to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now?
> 
> On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for
> > virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS
> > even your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you can't.
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM James Bloom <jabloom99@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >     Carl:
> > 
> >     I use VirtualBox on Debian 12, and I run virtual Windows 11 and
> >     Linux machines with no issue. I also tried GNOME boxes and had no
> >     direct problems, but I went back to using VirtualBox because it
> >     was compatible with my cloud storage setup - I can save a
> >     VirtualBox virtual machine file in the cloud server and access it
> >     from my desktop and laptop without issue, whereas GNOME boxes
> >     wouldn’t work if I did that - there were always boot errors. But
> >     GNOME boxes otherwise seemed to work great.
> > 
> >     James
> > 
> >     Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
> >     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     *From:* Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
> >     *Sent:* Saturday, August 26, 2023 9:29:30 AM
> >     *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >     *Subject:* Virtualization under Bookworm
> >     Hi,
> > 
> >     I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine
> >     hosted on
> >     my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used
> >     VirtualBox,
> >     just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then.
> > 
> >     What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to
> >     create a
> >     one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even
> >     main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as
> >     VirtualBox
> >     was back in the day.
> > 
> >     System is an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52 (Ryzen 7 6800, 32 GB of RAM, 2
> >     terabyte SSD).
> > 
> >     Thank you.
> > 
> >     -Carl Fink
> > 

Apt-install virt-manager - nice graphical virtual machine manager - and it
should pull in qemu and kvm

All the very best, as ever

Andy Cater
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mario.

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Virtualization under Bookworm Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2023-08-26 18:40 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm James Bloom <jabloom99@gmail.com> - 2023-08-26 19:30 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2023-08-26 19:40 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2023-08-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2023-08-26 21:50 +0200
      Re: Virtualization under Bookworm "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-08-26 22:00 +0200
      Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2023-08-26 22:10 +0200
        Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2023-08-27 00:10 +0200
          Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2023-08-27 01:30 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Oliver Wenston <place4876@gmail.com> - 2023-08-26 21:50 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2023-08-27 15:10 +0200
  Re: Virtualization under Bookworm Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-08-27 18:00 +0200

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