VirtualBox Gains a Working KVM Backend in Development Builds
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VirtualBox developers confirm an early but usable KVM backend, currently available only through manual source builds.

A recent development in the VirtualBox source tree introduces an early but usable KVM backend for Linux hosts. According to a comment by contributor Alexander Eichner, the new backend is now in a workable state, or at least when running modern guest operating systems. Older or more unusual guests, such as DOS, have not yet been tested.

And if you’re wondering what benefits this brings, the main one is that having a KVM backend allows VirtualBox to continue running virtual machines even when its own kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetflt, vboxnetflt) cannot be loaded.

This is especially relevant on modern Linux systems, where Secure Boot, kernel hardening, or distribution-specific policies can block third-party kernel drivers. In such cases, VirtualBox will now automatically fall back to using KVM if it is available on the host system.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 day ago

          I honestly had someone on HN trying to say it could replace ESX now that VMware has gone full retard. Like, wtf

          • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
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            23 hours ago

            Thanks to Lemmy, I quit the orange site. I didn’t expect the discussion on Lemmy to be that good! From HN I had this impression there are mostly idiots, plus these VC guys willing to utilise these masses of idiots to their advantage by various means. Via hiring them, making them do something (like adore YC and making them more popular, a fan base), by promoting one topics and suppressing others. They do modify the narrative all the time, to the point people start self-censoring.

            There are interesting people as well, sitting there for some reason. But I guess they are heavily invested into the platform, and also benefit from their popularity there, so it’s a win-win for them too.

            For me, an average guy, not even interested in becoming anyone popular, but seeking a normal discussion over topics I’m interested in, they’re just a moderation propaganda piece. While Lemmy mostly good. Unfortunately not all topics are covered here, some are quite tumbleweed, but some technical topics are rather good. So, my view, HN is just absolutely shitty trash in comparison.

            I’ve been visiting the week or so, not even slight mention of the Epstein files I found there. I hadn’t been spending my all day there, but at least that wasn’t on the surface. I bet they’d just brush it off as irrelevant to tech, but come on, you can discuss a variety of precisely tech aspects of these (they used regular gmail or yahoo accounts, their passwords were like wtf very simple, the opsec was non existent, yada yada). Crickets. On the other hand, there are multiple irrelevant (to tech) topics wildly discussed. So, when you’re long enough there, you’d start seeing patterns and very obvious censorship.