CentOS virt - Jul 2014 - Can KVM and VirtualBox co-exist on same host?

CentOS-6.5
VirtualBox-4.3.14

Is it possible, and if so advisable, to run KVM and VirtualBox guests on the
same host system?


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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:45 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
wrote:
> CentOS-6.5
> VirtualBox-4.3.14
>
> Is it possible, and if so advisable, to run KVM and VirtualBox guests on
the
> same host system?
Never tried it. It sounds like a  really, really bad idea.....

Hi,

On 07/22/2014 08:45 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> CentOS-6.5
> VirtualBox-4.3.14
> 
> Is it possible, and if so advisable, to run KVM and VirtualBox guests on
the
> same host system?
I don't know if you'd do it on a server, but I have run Genymotion, a
VirtualBox based Android emulator, on my desktop which was
simultaneously running a couple of KVM VMs as an oVirt node. It's not a
huge spec machine, performance was awful, but I don't know how much of
that was because of resource competition and how much was because I was
swapping.

Cheers,
Dave.

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