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minus-square@LeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilink8•1 year agoWhat happened to being able to use VirtualBox as a front-end to KVM? That seemed like the best of both worlds.
minus-square@d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzMlinkfedilink8•1 year agoIt’s still being maintained. It’s a third-party project btw, but it’s just a patchset so you’ll need to build it yourself: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm Arch users can also install the virtualbox-kvm package from AUR to get it all in one go, nice and easy.
minus-squareJackGreenEarthlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoWhy would you do that when libvirt exists and is GTK themed?
minus-squarePossibly linuxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year agoLibvirt is the backend for virtualization. Maybe you meant virtual manager? In that case it is Qt based.
What happened to being able to use VirtualBox as a front-end to KVM? That seemed like the best of both worlds.
It’s still being maintained. It’s a third-party project btw, but it’s just a patchset so you’ll need to build it yourself: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm
Arch users can also install the virtualbox-kvm package from AUR to get it all in one go, nice and easy.
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Why would you do that when libvirt exists and is GTK themed?
I use KDE.
https://f1ash.github.io/qt-virt-manager/
Libvirt is the backend for virtualization. Maybe you meant virtual manager? In that case it is Qt based.