[OpenIndiana-discuss] What advantages of KVM over Vbox

[Kent Watsen]

VBox will run on AMD, whereas KVM won't  (unfortunately)

K.


On 12/5/2011 4:39 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> What advantages for KVM over things like Vbox?
>
> I know how to use Vbox but would have to learn a whole new thing to
> use KVM.
>
> Admittedly a bit dense about what KVM is and how it works compared to
> other vm solutions, even in a brief endeavor to `readup' on it.  I hit
> things like (on KVM homepage under `Prerequisites'):
>
>    A VT capable Intel processor, or an SVM capable AMD processor [...]
>
> But no mention of what VT or SVM means.
>
> Is there some rule of thumb way to know if your machine will support
> KVM?
>
>
>
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