On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:57:07AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> By now, you know 3rd contenders, VirtualBox. :-) But, since Hyper-V is
> part of Windows10, just use that.

Have you ever actually used hyper-v? What an awful interface and the
requirement it puts on the guest is rather annoying and makes life weird
for linux.

I use it on a regular basis on my Windows 10 mobile workstation. I didn't have to do anything special to have Debian run within the VM so I'm not sure what these requirements you mentioned are. Note: I only do server stuff with these virtual machines so I don't have any need for X. If there is something special you have to do in order to get X running, I wouldn't be aware of it since it does not impact me.

VirtualBox is not as complex to configure because it can't do as much as Hyper-V or VMware ESXi but those things may or may not be important for you. I don't find its interface to be any more difficult to use than ESXi or VirtualBox, just different. For instance, both Hyper-V and ESXi have extensive support for virtual networks, virtual switches, VM migration, scaling, etc. VirtualBox is more like Parallels or VMware Fusion/Workstation. Hyper-V can do everything VirtualBox can do provided the host OS is Windows. The converse is not true.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay

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