Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-25 months agoHow to Get Started Using Virtual Machine Manager in Linux (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware)www.maketecheasier.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkHow to Get Started Using Virtual Machine Manager in Linux (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware)www.maketecheasier.comPossibly linux@lemmy.zip to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
If you run Windows make sure to install the virtio drivers https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers/
minus-squaresorter_plainview@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoOh dear… I really thought I understood what bare metal means… But looks like this is beyond my tech comprehension
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoBare metal is “kernel running on hardware” I think. KVM is a kernel feature, so the virtualization is done in kernel space (?) and on the hardware.
minus-squaresorter_plainview@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWell this can be a starting point of a rabbit hole. Time to spend hours reading stuff that I don’t really understand.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoTL;DR: use what is in the kernel, without strange out of tree kernel modules like for VirtualBox, and use KVM, i.e. on fedora virt-manager qemu qemu-kvm
Oh dear… I really thought I understood what bare metal means… But looks like this is beyond my tech comprehension
Bare metal is “kernel running on hardware” I think. KVM is a kernel feature, so the virtualization is done in kernel space (?) and on the hardware.
Well this can be a starting point of a rabbit hole. Time to spend hours reading stuff that I don’t really understand.
TL;DR: use what is in the kernel, without strange out of tree kernel modules like for VirtualBox, and use KVM, i.e. on fedora
virt-manager qemu qemu-kvm