On 10/26/2015 02:45 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Although the KVM solution discussed here may work, the description of 
> this in operation appears to be a true
> hypervisor even when only used to run, say, MS Windows as an 
> application environment virtual machine under SL.  That is, this 
> solution is not the same "in spirit" as is VirtualBox. 

KVM will do what you need, and it will look very similar in operation to 
VirtualBox.  And it is already built-in to SL.  Not sure why you object 
to it when it has a very similar interface and works nearly 
identically.  Why don't you actually try it yourself?

> On a hard 802.3 wired connection, VirtualBox does provide Internet 
> access to the outside world from the guest; this seems to be a failure 
> on a 802.11 ISP wifi connection.  JHas anyone used 
> VMware-Player-12.0.0-2985596.x86_64.bundle on a SL7 host with a MS Win 
> guest?

VMware-Player has, over the years, been somewhat crippled compared to 
VMware Workstation.  I have a license of several versions of VMware 
Workstation, and I have a license for VMware Fusion on OSX. The KVM 
interface on EL7 works better than either, in my experience.  And I say 
this while actively using a Windows 7 VM right now in a window on my EL7 
desktop (and connected through 802.11 wireless.....)