[CentOS] Systemd and VirtualBox

Tue May 17 08:25:53 UTC 2016
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rob Kampen wrote:

> Considered, very briefly. I have had great success and stability with running 
> VirtualBox on both CentOS 5 & 6 for the few Windoze apps that my clients need 
> to run and have up on a server 24x7. The set ups I am using have been running 
> reliably for over 8 years and remote manged with zero issues - HUGE thanks to 
> the CentOS team for an awesome OS system delivery

Sure.

> Thus, I have simply installed the latest VirtualBox on CentOS 7 and gone from 
> there. I was aware that systemd existed and deliberately waited until this 
> year to upgrade the hardware and OS, thinking issues like this should have 
> been sorted by now.

You just get the win of running a setup Redhat test, rather than a setup they
don't have any great interest in.

> Are there any good tutorial / howtos for KVM? Although at this point I am 
> back on another continent and reluctant to shift to KVM when over 20 hours 
> fly time away from the server.

I'd probably start with:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/

jh