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Re: Migrate Virtualbox

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Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2017, 21:20:18 CET schrieb Mark Fletcher:
Hi Mark,

try KVM, my favourite, it is working great. Use AQEMU as management interface.
Maybe QEMU is also a solution. 

Good luck!

Hans

> Hello!
> 
> I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox
> is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable
> distro shortly.
> 
> I use Virtualbox for a couple of Windows machines to do the last task I
> cannot yet migrate to Debian (due to specialist software that is not made
> for Linux).
> 
> I am starting to contemplate migrating from Virtualbox to a different
> virtualisation solution that will be supported in Stretch.
> 
> My needs are fairly vanilla -- I have a 4-core-with-hyperthreading Intel
> Core i7 920 CPU, circa 2009, and 24GB or RAM in the host. I run 2 VMs,
> not all the time, which have 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM each.
> 
> Access to physical optical drive, and virtual disks, is important.
> Shared folders with the host OS (which is currently Jessie and will be
> Stretch in the future) is important. 2D graphics is important, 3D less
> so. Ability to access physical USB equipment attached to the host would
> be nice but not a show-stopper. I have never got that working completely
> satisfactorily with my Virtualbox install, but suspect that is due more
> to insufficient time reading documentation than it is to limitations in
> the software (which should illustrate the importance of that element of
> things).
> 
> Minimal time futzing around to get the virtualisation solution working
> is important, as is not having to learn an entirely new paradigm to use
> the software. Stability of the result is also important.
> 
> And finally, a neat solution to migrate my Virtualbox machines to the
> new environment is very important -- I would infinitely prefer not to
> have to re-install from scratch into the new environment but would
> prefer to be able to migrate my Virtualbox disks to the new environment
> somehow, if anything supports that.
> 
> So my question is, is there an alternative solution in Debian that
> allows for that easy migration path -- any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark

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Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 13:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-17 13:40 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2017-02-17 13:50 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2017-02-17 15:20 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 15:30 +0100
      Re: Migrate Virtualbox Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-02-17 18:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-02-17 14:10 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 15:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-17 14:40 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-17 16:00 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-02-17 20:10 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-17 20:20 +0100

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