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Old 01-18-2011, 01:37 AM   #1
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qemu or virtualbox?

I need a centos 5.5 as a virtual guest on my running ubuntu 9 machine. I love qemu but since i don't have hardware virtualization in my system so i can't use kvm acceleration with qemu. My past experience with qemu without kvm is not good . What you recommend VirtualBox is good alternate solution?

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Old 01-18-2011, 01:47 AM   #2
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Go for Virtualbox
 
Old 01-18-2011, 05:12 AM   #3
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Virtualbox might be better, but with qemu the kernel does not have to be modded as I understand it.
 
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Virtualbox might be better, but with qemu the kernel does not have to be modded as I understand it.
You don't have to mod a kernel for Virtualbox.
 
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You don't have to mod a kernel for Virtualbox.
VirtualBox does come with kernel modules that need to be loaded before running any virtualization.
 
  


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