Because I know how VirtualBox works. I've used it on other machines before.

And for reasons I can't figure out kvm does not work on a Win7 host. (sarcasm)

{^_^}

On 2014/02/28 05:23, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 28/02/14 06:13, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am trying to install Virtualbox 4.3.8 on my SL6.3. The installation
>> seems to be OK
>
> I know it's non of my business ... but why do you install Virtualbox,
> when SL ships with a quite functional virtualization?
>
>    yum install kvm qemu-kvm python-virtinst libvirt libvirt-python \
>                virt-manager libguestfs-tools
>
> That should basically give you every thing you would need.  Start
> virt-manager (should even be added to the Applications menu).
>
> A RHEL6 Getting Started guide on virtualization can be found here:
> <https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Getting_Started_Guide/>
>
> And another quite good "getting started guide", explaining a more
> advanced network setup:
>
> <http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/kvm-virtualization-in-redhat-centos-scientific-linux-6/>
>
>
> --
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth
>