Accueil - Cenabumiki. Converting a virtual machine from VirtualBox to KVM | Chez Nick. VirtualBox has been great for me, but I thought I'd give KVM/qemu a try. I'd tried running Bochs around 2003 and it was exciting to see that it actually worked, but the poor performance made it more of a novelty than a useful tool. It's nice to see how far Qemu it's come in this time. It's not only usable but quite handy, with simple CLI management and excellent performance. Some people report better performance using KVM. I haven't benchmarked KVM agains VirtualBox, but I found they both performed adequately on my AMD Athlon. VirtualBox is certainly the slicker of the two: if you run the free-as-in-beer guest extensions, desktop integration is fantastic. The VM I converted was my Oracle test host which runs CentOS. Be sure to use full path names if you don't want your disk images to end up in ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ Typically in Unix output filenames are going to drop out in the current directory if the full path isn't given.
Convert from VirtualBox to KVM « I do what I can. Main Page. The Fat Bloke Sings. Oracle has just released Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure version 3.5, a major new release which introduces some great new features, but also allows a VDI deployment that can start with a single server, yet scale to the Enterprise. Here's a quick review of some of these features: Single Server to the Enterprise For too long, the notion of VDI, or server-hosted virtual desktops, has been held back by the perceived high entry cost of the hardware needed to support it. It is assumed that virtualization requires both x86 servers and specialized ( i.e.
"expensive" ) shared storage on which to hold the virtual machines. And the architecture is powerful enough such that, to expand capacity you can simply add more servers, or, as your deployment grows, plug-in shared storage devices too. So it's easy to get started, and easy to grow, but can it scale to the Enterprise, because Enterprise-scale deployments need Enterprise-scale tools, right? Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is such a tool. Enjoy,