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Re: Migrate Virtualbox

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:00:11PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> 
> I have recently gone down this path myself. I chose qemu+kvm as my
> virtualisation platform of choice, as it seems the most 'natively Linux'
> option (that is, QEMU is FOSS and KVM is in the kernel, so no third-party
> bits needed).

Thanks very much Hans, Georgi, Darac and Teemu for the comprehensive, 
and super-quick help! This list rocks!

Sounds like the only thing that's less-than-perfect is the shared 
folders with the host, but I'll look into KVM / QEMU's documentation for 
what's possible for that. A Samba server feels sub-optimal to me (bad 
experiences with Samba at work, albeit I don't need a lot of speed for 
this use case here) but if that's the best option there is, it's doable.

Everything else looks perfect. Thanks Darac in particular for the 
step-by-step instructions on migrating the disks, and Teemu for pointing 
out I will need to get the new machines as close in spec as possible to 
the old ones so Windows doesn't barf. (Guests are Windows 7)

Much appreciated guys

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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