Qemu for Servers? Answer: Yes (for one case, at least)

[Kent Borg]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> What benefit do you get using qemu over virtualbox?
>   

I don't know.  I have no experience with Virtualbox, so I can't say Qemu 
is better.

I think when I first looked at such things Virtualbox was 
proprietary-only, so I dismissed it. 

Looking quickly at features, the proprietary image format worries me, I 
would want to be sure I could always get my data out and into a 
competitor.  Also, the proprietary/GPL split means they will always try 
add a must-have feature to the proprietary version. A purely open source 
project, in contrast, will try to add the must-have feature.

That said, I am ignorant, Virtualbox might have some benefits I don't 
know about.

-kb

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