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Running VirtualBox guests parallel to KVM QEMU
Posted: 15. Jul 2020, 23:03
by didiko
Hi,
I have a Windows guest on KVM and I'd like to be able to run my VirtualBox guests at the same time, I tried to change the acceleration to KVM but it fails on device is busy.
Is there a configuration that will allow sharing of the KVM engine?
If there isn't is there a technical reason why not?
Just because if this does not exist, I may want to try to add that feature.
Re: Running VirtualBox guests parallel to KVM QEMU
Posted: 15. Jul 2020, 23:12
by towo2099
Is there a configuration that will allow sharing of the KVM engine?
No.
If there isn't is there a technical reason why not
?
I would oracle, there is.
Just because if this does not exist, I may want to try to add that feature.
You want what? Add that feature to the vbox sourcecode?
Re: Running VirtualBox guests parallel to KVM QEMU
Posted: 15. Jul 2020, 23:25
by didiko
Thanks for the quick reply!
towo2099 wrote:
If there isn't is there a technical reason why not
?
I would oracle, there is.
What does this mean?
Just because if this does not exist, I may want to try to add that feature.
You want what? Add that feature to the vbox sourcecode?
Yes, that sounds feasible for my experience.
Re: Running VirtualBox guests parallel to KVM QEMU
Posted: 16. Jul 2020, 00:46
by scottgus1
Most of us here are just users, the devs are too busy to browse the forum. Unfortunately, the devs are the only ones who would know if it were possible to run Virtualbox on top of KVM. They're already trying to run Virtualbox on top of Windows Hyper-V, and that's not all there yet.
Development gets driven by the paying Oracle customers, or by user-contributed code. If you have the IDE moxie to rewire Virtualbox so it will work under KVM, I'm sure the devs would be interested.