Floss Virtual Machine

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GNUbahn
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I wonder if one virtual machine (software) can be recommended over the others? I want to use it to create a couple of VM for e.g. banking, internet searches, communication with authorities/public institutions etc. It should be working (well) on e.g. a librebooted x200 and provide me with total/maximum separation from my host computer.

Which can you recommend?

jxself
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QEMU!

GNUbahn
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Thanks. I've started to read about QEMU from your advices.

For me the best way to learn this is to just try. I would like just one clarification, please:
I'm a bit puzzled about the references to qemu + KVM or Xen and from my initial readings I don't learn much.

anyway, can I - being sort of an itiot - work with qemu alone or do I need KVM or Xen? Or what can you recommend?

onpon4
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I prefer GNOME Boxes, personally. It's really simple to use.

GNUbahn
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Sorry, please elaborate: To work with qemu or on its own?

onpon4
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Boxes is just a frontend for things like QEMU.

onpon4
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> gnome boxes will take care of the dependencies for you

That's unfortunately not quite true. qemu-system-x86 is only recommended by the gnome-boxes package, so depending on the package manager used, it may not be installed automatically. In that case, Boxes will show a cryptic error (I forget what it is) when you try to create a new box. So do make sure you install both gnome-boxes and qemu-system-x86.

GNUbahn
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I thought asking would make it easy :-)

If I get it right, the recommendation that all (!) agree on is qemu as a backend. Is that correct?

And so far there seems to be three recommendations for a frontend: KVM, GnomeBOXES and Xen. I include the latter because it's on qemu's list.

Any experiences with Xen?