[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#794466: VIrtualBox future in Debian

[Gordon Farquharson]

I did a test migration of a VirtualBox image running Windows 10 to KVM from
virt-manager, and everything worked. However, I don't seem to have the
correct drivers installed (virtio drivers?) to get full resolution support
in my guest Windows system.

I'd still like to know what the plans are for the VirtualBox package in
Debian. I can backport the version in sid to stretch by building it myself,
but at some point, this process may break if maintenance of the package is
dropped.

Gordon

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 21:59 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> > 3. Do you recommend migrating existing VirtualBox images to KVM?
>
> Migration should be doable. I'm not sure if there are any issues in
> migration,
> but you may give it a shot.
>
>
> Should you migrate, it may depend on what your core requirements are.
>
> VirtualBox has a much nicer UI integrating all features, very well, into
> its
> Graphical interface.
>
>
> On the other hand, KVM is the stock in-kernel hypervisor for Linux, which
> has a
> much larger userbase (Oepnstack, RHEV etc) and gets much more testing.
>
>
> In the past, I've migrated my setups from both ways. Initially, from KMV to
> VBox, and then later again from VBox to KVM.
>
> VM disk image conversion was fairly stable. I had no issues during image
> conversion.
>
> For config settings, I just noted down the settings and applied the same
> when
> importing it to the other hypervisor. For a large number of VMs, this may
> not be
> optimal.
>
>
> - --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
> Debian - The Universal Operating System
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Gordon Farquharson
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