On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox > > <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > >> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my > >> desktop. > >> > >> I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get > >> the impression that there are special kernel modules that are > >> required for virtualbox, but if I install dkms then that will be > >> automatically handled for me whenever there is a kernel upgrade. > >> Install dkms, install the virtualbox repo, install virtualbox > >> rpms, set up image, done. Is that all there is to it? Would > >> something other than virtualbox be better? > >> > >> Any recommendations or suggestions will be appreciated. > > > > Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages > > and aren't concerned about running your images on other types of > > hosts, try KVM first. > > KVM, in my experience, gives a poorer graphic performance, sound and/or USB may not work, and bridged networking is a little less intuitive. None of this may matter to you though. For a single desktop, I think VirtualBox takes the least effort to set up. KVM is pretty painless, but the interface is less intuitive. On the other hand, if you later want to run several instances of CentOS on a machine, especially without a GUI, then KVM is far superior in my experience, as far as resource management, so is definitely worth getting used to. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6