Virtual Machine Formats

[@mtruo001]

As a non IT person, I wish you elaborated on how you come upon your preferences of one product versus another. Technical explanations are okay!!

[@PaulaBean]

Yeah, why the dislike on Virtualbox? Details please ;-)

[@hrmf32]

@@PaulaBean QEMU is just more powerfull and more stable

[@tadmikowsky7520]

One non-technical reason: Oracle owns VirtualBox, and Oracle is a notoriously terrible/awful/horrible company in the IT realm.

[@PaulaBean]

@@tadmikowsky7520 If it is such a horrible company, why does it still exist?

[@simonhoel2704]

​@@PaulaBeanyou know Chiquita banana used to be the united fruit company. for an idea of how bad they are, they funded a government to commit mass murder of civilians to keep banana workers under paid.

[@SB-qm5wg]

VirtualBox is VERY popular and common in IT. I speak from experience. Not for general hosting, but for testing and specialized client-network access.

[@tadmikowsky7520]

I've mostly seen it used by windows users that don't like hyper-v and don't want to pay for VMware workstation licenses. VirtualBox is also maintained by Oracle (🤮), so I avoid it at all costs.

[@aelaan12]

As a VMWare Admin this is a daily chore when everyone comes dragging in their fantastic machine. Importing, exporting, ova, ovf it all seems someone is doing it for the first time, yes there is a complete write up in Atlassian. Then there are the ones that blame everything on VMWare because their exports are too big (uhhhh clean up your machine first maybe). Never mind I get paid tons of money for this...

[@peterjansen4826]

Chris, the big challenge with virt-manager, making and using a shared directory. It is more complicated for virt-manager than for Virtualbox (for security-reasons it is not that easy to get that done in virt-manager) and we don't want Linux-users to be stuck to Virtualbox, right? 😉 So it is a good idea for a video if you can figure it out. A shared folder is pretty much essential for a VM in my book.

[@iQuickGaming]

a workaround would be to host a webserver on the host machine to be able to transfer files onto the guest or even better with a FTP server so the client can also send files

[@tomaszgasior772]

Did you try spice webdav?

[@ЮрийДжиндоев]

Just wanted to work with Virtual machines again. And here it goes! Thank you!

[@Nazar-Ok-1946]

Wow, I just finished school day and here we go...

[@jcugnoni]

VirtualBox is actually great for 90% of the applications for workstation / desktop use and it supports many different Vm disk formats too. I used it nearly exclusivelly for more than 10 years without a single issue. Now I use virt-manager for gpu passthrough and vmware workstation too because it has better 3d acceleration (higher opengl version) but that's the only advantage I see for those solutions compared to VirtualBox

[@THE16THPHANTOM]

off topic but how is the gpu passthrough? i want to try it and completely be free of windows someday. they say there are some performance loss but how big of a deal is that? is as negligible as FPS gamer snobs saying 16 nano seconds response from a monitor is too much and they need 1 nano second response?

[@xiaowong6651]

3:25 while I can't see myself ever having a vhd that's 2Tb or larger, I guess that it can still open my eyes to why large companies may not use vhds. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

[@Tzalim]

I love Gnome Boxes... very simple to configure.

[@developerpranav]

Ventoy lets you live boot Windows from VHDx files on a drive with a plugin, and also other formats for Linux. That's something you should look into, it's really interesting :D

[@tinolm6202]

Thanks for this video, was kinda waiting for it, I remember beeing too lazy to install windows and just burning my virtual machine (img for qemu) to a physical harddrive Kinda worked (kinda), always wanted to know them in a little more detail.

[@Praxss]

Nice to see new channel logo

[@FREDNAJAH]

you complain about virtual box but then go right into why vmdk is bad because its not portable. i use proxmox and virtual box and if you have enough memory and cpu the best option is virtual box because anyone can use it, share it, transfer it. not everyone has a lab in their house like you.

[@stupid_guyexe]

buddy he was just explaining pros and cons

[@katrinabryce]

MacOS has VMWare Fusion instead of VMWare WorkStation. It is a slightly different process to export ovf files, but it can be done.

[@DavidM2002]

A few months ago, I used VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to create a VM of my Window 11 laptop. It created the files in VMDK format. Since then, I updated the VMware vCenter to Ver 6.4 and when I created a VM of my Windows 10 desktop, it created the files in VHDX. Any idea why ? The problem that it created for me is that I want to deploy this on my QNAP NAS and it won't recognize the VHDX files.

[@yerunski]

I would like to know where to get that Startrek theme. Looks awesome.

[@muddyexport5639]

So, what is your fav open source VM for the home user?

[@Richard-ck7sr]

Thanks Chris, looking forward to quickemu. hopefully will cover how to run it from a different directory than it's .conf file. and how to make use of bridged network.

[@erk5243]

@ChrisTitusTech if I am using win10pro on my PC, and I use a win7pro on a VM, is my host (win10) PC potentially vulnerable from my VM (win7) when using a bridged network connection???

[@ugsita]

I like the graphic enviroment you're usong. I guess it's a personalized version of linux mint.Could you tell me what you did exactly to have a look like this?

[@OLDMANDOM42.Dominic]

I found having to use a VHD file for a "windows home" could then backup to it as Windows home doesn't play well with Network shares.

[@TenEXP]

Great video as always! Random question because why not: How would you suggest one to start with IT, looking to make a career in it without going bankrupt for college? Would you even suggest such a route?

[@Monarchias]

Want a relatively nice way? Start with a homelab. All you need is a pc that have at least 4 cores (or like 2 cores 4 threads) and 8GB RAM, 2 HDD minimum, but and SSD, or 2 would be better. For example 1 120 HDD (or SSD) for hypervisor (like Proxmox, hyper-v, or even Win 2016), and 2 other 500GB+ HDD (or SSD, for these preferably SSD's for speed, heavily advised). That other 1 or 2 drives are for storing VM's, images, backups and whatever you learn on the way to use it for. When you will spin up more VM's you will apriciate the performance of SSD's. If you will do it fine, you will quickly outgrow the specifications. For minimalists or budget reasons, I would scale things with 1 cpu thread and 2GB RAM wise. I hope this helped.

[@xiaowong6651]

1:42 I usually use vhds because they're the most compatible I know...

[@MaxPrehl]

No discussion of converting between the formats?

[@lsik231l]

VMware Workstation Pro is now free for personal use. Gonna give it a shot.

[@keithmiller9665]

Very useful, thank you!

[@Zundfolge]

Here's what I'd like to do with a Virtual Machine (and yet I doubt its possible): I have a dual boot machine with two HDs, one has Windows on it and the other Linux. I need to log into the Windows side about every 6 weeks to work on a recurring freelance project so I'd like to find a way to load that already installed Windows drive in a VM under Linux. I don't want to install everything from scratch (because I have software installed on that Windows instance that I no longer have access to, but it is legally installed there). Is this even possible? If so what would be the best way to go about doing it?

[@DavidM2002]

I created a VM of my Windows 11 laptop using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. It's a perfect replica of my laptop with all of the apps and settings. It's free from VMware. Once I created the files, I then deployed that on my QNAP NAS but more knowledgeable people will be able to explain how to deploy it on your Linux drive. For a novice, it definitely took some hand holding and a couple more YT videos to really get it to run properly.

[@dungtrananh1522]

Dear sir, do you know any method to convert oracle ovm to .ova format?

[@mbeware]

Hi, How could we create a VM (OVA would be excellent) from a partition/Pgysical install ? I know I can use Clonezila to clone the partition somewhere and then restore from the VM, and finally, export to OVA, but there must be an easier way, right?

[@ozb2006]

are you going to play around with type hypervisor? and show us?

[@TechXSoftware]

Is there a a good free alternative version of VBox that works on Windows?

[@hahachannel7726]

chris, i know my question is out of context, but i just curious why you prefer using brave rather than edge or chrome?

[@yerunski]

I would say because of privacy reasons.

[@abx42]

I haven't had to use a virtual PC in a long time. Yeah virtualbox was my go-to I don't claim to be a professional it does what I need to do and that's about it.

[@DaniBatkataBG]

Hey Chris! Mind updating your "Minimal Windows 10 Install | ISO Creation, Setup, and Config" Video using WinToolKit? The tool has been updated and it looks a bit more detailed and different than your video from 3yrs ago!

[@charlesduncan9250]

Hi Chris, So...... VM or Docker container? (or both, don't say both :) ) I want to run a number of Home Network apps, pihole, wireguard, Cloudflare and Google Domains DDNS support, pfsense. bitwarden, etc.

[@olifloof]

would probably be better to get a pi cluster tbh

[@yerunski]

If you don't want a separate VM/server for everything, I would recommend using Docker. Saves a lot of resources.

[@ThePowerRanger]

What is best VM for Windows. Been using Virtual Box cause it's popular.

[@williambaldwin9346]

Where can we get the star trek iso?

[@John7No]

I am all for terminal use, but having to open the terminal type tar etc to extract the ova, while you could have literally right click extract since you were already on that folder in GUI, I don't think is what you call optimal :D nice video on the other hand. Maybe do another one that you can go a bit deeper on the why's, what VB does not have that VMware does etc. like a comparison of features if you like or personal experience with each one

[@hrmf32]

don't be lazy, terminal is the game.

[@BobDoe_69]

I use virtualbox and i hate it, trying to jump to virt-manager or the like. any tips on a headstart using it? or guide or something

[@hrmf32]

always rtfm

[@niksingh710]

File manager ?Thunar?

[@chromerims]

Have you tried KASM ? Kindest regards, neighbours and friends.

[@williamherrick497]

gonna borrow your snarky comment "archaic dinosaur waiting to be sunset" as my personal elevator speech descriptor

[@macgyver5108]

Gotta love tar! And tar balls, _way_ better than hair balls...😁

[@hugbearsx4]

Just saying 'I hate VBox' and leaving it at that? Care to elaborate on the objective technical reason for it?

[@paulfrayne6519]

😊

[@IronRex]

🤔Aha... Antiviruses... Smartphones... VirtualBox... What else doesn't he like? 😂 I would be interested in a video about sharing or moving entire VMs (not just disks) from host to host using different hypervisors.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Social Media... as I type this on a Social Media platform haha 😂

[@MarioShotgun]

Everything sucks 😂

[@williamlinington9166]

I would use virtual box before using Micro$oft.

[@thekillersclan420]

I agree with VirtualBox. It is soooo slow.

[@viyusavery248]

What about virtual machines for android smartphones

[@kevin34ct]

I love VMware, but unfortunately I cannot afford it at home.

[@yerunski]

VMWare Workstation Player is available as a free download :)

[@LilHoss]

😵

[@Pappagar]

Everyone is getting away from VMware now due to the acquisition and price hikes

[@Kreemerz]

VirtualBox runs so terrible slow... HyperV does not.

[@1steditiongamer276]

This doesn't really help me. I wish you would have went into more detail about each VM.

[@tommyispog8026]

First