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

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi all,

>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.


I started a discussion on -backports mail list some days before your email
https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2016/12/msg00042.html

Please forward the discussion there, since this seems to be a backport-specific issue :)

G.



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?
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>Migration should be doable. I'm not sure if there are any issues in migration,
>but you may give it a shot.
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>Should you migrate, it may depend on what your core requirements are.
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>VirtualBox has a much nicer UI integrating all features, very well, into its
>Graphical interface.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
>Debian - The Universal Operating System
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