TehBamski@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhat app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?message-squaremessage-square437fedilinkarrow-up1542arrow-down112
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minus-squareLena@gregtech.eulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoGNOME Boxes, works much better than stuff like virtualbox and uses Qemu under the hood.
minus-squarebluemite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoNever heard of it before, but used to use Virtualbox quite a bit. What makes this much better?
minus-squarepimeys@lemmy.nauk.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoSuper easy to use and the guest distro just works. Minimal interface which looks nice, but misses some features such as network settings. Qemu is great though. Linux virtualization is the best in class. Basically the whole Internet runs on top of KVM. Boxes is just a UI on top of KVM.
minus-squarelka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 days agoVirtualbox is owned by Oracle. Oracle has a nasty habit of being a real shitty company.
GNOME Boxes, works much better than stuff like virtualbox and uses Qemu under the hood.
Never heard of it before, but used to use Virtualbox quite a bit. What makes this much better?
Super easy to use and the guest distro just works. Minimal interface which looks nice, but misses some features such as network settings.
Qemu is great though. Linux virtualization is the best in class. Basically the whole Internet runs on top of KVM. Boxes is just a UI on top of KVM.
Virtualbox is owned by Oracle. Oracle has a nasty habit of being a real shitty company.