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Let me add one more voice to say, why oh why would you do that to yourself and suffer subpar virtualization when you have world class type 1 virtualization built straight into the kernel. And an incredibly capable UI, around since 2009, in the form of virt-manager?
It is also really slow. I can't play games in it and doing any CPU or GPU heavy work takes for ever.
Meanwhile KVM runs VMs pretty much like they are native. (1-2% slower technically)
Well, it is a type 1 hypervisor…
Exactly