LeFantome comments on VirtualBox has been packaged as a Flatpak

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/linux@programming.dev

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/6985

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As this uses the KVM backend, they are all essentially alternative UI for the same hypervisor.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

KVM is only used for the CPU portions

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Surely it uses KVM for memory isolation as well.

I guess what you are saying is that VirtualBox is still doing device emulation. If so, we agree.

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