<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>About 12 years ago when I had access to Microsoft MSDN I got a big SuperMicro box, set it up with CentOS 4 (RHEL) Linux, and used QEMU&amp;#x2F;KVM to set up a Windows domain controller and several other Windows VMs, and several Linux VMs, on a couple of virtual subnets, along with iptables port forwarding, Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, and many services.  Some of the Linux VMs services authenticated with the Windows domain.  I wanted to set up at least one non-x86&amp;#x2F;x64 emulated-CPU VM but never got that working very well in QEMU.&lt;p&gt;The exercise was a good (and incremental) learning experience and increased my general networking and sys-admin knowledge, which I&amp;#x27;ve used well as part of my software engineering career.  I would have been lost in many professional situations without it.  QEMU&amp;#x2F;KVM are awesome.&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  more and better words</text><parent_chain><item><author>vero2</author><text>We have several windows vms running in virtualbox. All have rdp&amp;#x2F;vnc for specialised programs. (These are offline).&lt;p&gt;Everytime I tried to migrate to qemu or virt-manager or gnome-boxes it was a real nightmare especially installing SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking. I read in Phoronix the performance of virtualbox is subpar and all KVM&amp;#x2F;qemu is the way to go.&lt;p&gt;Please, could the OSS community build a easy to use GUI that SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking is made simple. Any one from qemu,  I really appreciate the work but still very challenging for sysadmins.</text></item><item><author>chousuke</author><text>Using QEMU directly is a bit tricky and it&amp;#x27;s not really intended to be used in that fashion by most users, unlike VirtualBox.&lt;p&gt;Both gnome-boxes and virt-manager use QEMU under the hood though, and they provide a point-and-click experience. I use virt-manager myself and I do not think it&amp;#x27;s any more difficult than VirtualBox is.</text></item><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.&lt;p&gt;The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &amp;quot;Networking&amp;quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&amp;#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.&lt;p&gt;QEMU Gentoo : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QEMU&amp;#x2F;Options&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QEMU&amp;#x2F;Options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;QEMU official : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;qemu-doc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;qemu-doc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;KVM Performance : &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;Tuning_KVM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;Tuning_KVM&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chousuke</author><text>I confess that I haven&amp;#x27;t run Windows with virt-manager on my own desktop in a long while, but it worked just fine after installing the required drivers at install time. IIRC Redhat distributes signed drivers for Windows for free.&lt;p&gt;The problems I did have were with VMs I tried to convert from VMware to KVM, and those stemmed from Windows&amp;#x27; inability (version 7) to properly handle changing hardware. Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s better at nowadays.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vero2</author><text>We have several windows vms running in virtualbox. All have rdp&amp;#x2F;vnc for specialised programs. (These are offline).&lt;p&gt;Everytime I tried to migrate to qemu or virt-manager or gnome-boxes it was a real nightmare especially installing SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking. I read in Phoronix the performance of virtualbox is subpar and all KVM&amp;#x2F;qemu is the way to go.&lt;p&gt;Please, could the OSS community build a easy to use GUI that SPICE+virtio drivers+ networking is made simple. Any one from qemu,  I really appreciate the work but still very challenging for sysadmins.</text></item><item><author>chousuke</author><text>Using QEMU directly is a bit tricky and it&amp;#x27;s not really intended to be used in that fashion by most users, unlike VirtualBox.&lt;p&gt;Both gnome-boxes and virt-manager use QEMU under the hood though, and they provide a point-and-click experience. I use virt-manager myself and I do not think it&amp;#x27;s any more difficult than VirtualBox is.</text></item><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.&lt;p&gt;The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &amp;quot;Networking&amp;quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&amp;#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.&lt;p&gt;QEMU Gentoo : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QEMU&amp;#x2F;Options&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;QEMU&amp;#x2F;Options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;QEMU official : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;qemu-doc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;qemu-doc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;KVM Performance : &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;Tuning_KVM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&amp;#x2F;page&amp;#x2F;Tuning_KVM&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story>