On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:59 PM, David Sommerseth
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>> From: "Joseph Areeda" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, 2 October, 2012 10:51:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: The opposite SL and VirtualBox problem
>>
>> Well, I'm not going to touch Nico's comment because I don't know KVM.
>>
>> For me it's the Devil you know kind of thing.  I've had good
>> experience
>> with Vbox on multiple OS and am just playing in my comfort zone.
>>
>> I do have reasons to explore other VMs but none of them pressing.  I
>> just want to install one of the University's "free" site license copy
>> of
>> Windows as a courtesy to our students.
>
> Even though Nico have some good points, I feel some of them are also dated due to the shape of virt-manager in earlier versions.  In EL6.3, it's become quite good IMO and very usable.  If you're running KVM locally on your own computer, there would be no benefits of using vbox IMO.

What do you find improved? I'm writing a new KVM setup guideline for
complete "newbies" on an open source project, and would welcome your
insights. I did a 6.3 based installation today and found no
significant improvementn in the virt-manager itself.