On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Why are people choosing it over other solutions, and what can we change
in qemu/kvm to get users using that instead ?
I use Virtualbox on a laptop with Fedora 14 as host OS, I use for building
and test installation of Windows application and for Running some windows
only application (Lotus Domino Designer and Administrator)
I use it for the following reasons:
- The easy snapshot features, when doing a lot of package testing on
Windows, I have to rollback to an earlier snapshot.
- Local shared folders. to share files from Fedora host to windows
client.
- Nice GUI, Very easy to setup and manage new clients.
- Save current state of guest, so I easy can switch clients with out
having to close the the client OS down.
- Running Windows application in a windows guest, runs very smooth, no
delay in updating the GUI.
I have tried the same stuff on kvm about a year ago, it was
the possibility to share local host folders with the guests and when running
windows applications (ex. Lotus Domino Designer) there was a little delay
before the GUI was updated.
Tim