"This time around, that purge didn't work. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get VirtualBox to behave. This same issue has surfaced for me repeatedly over the years. The number of times I've had to uninstall and reinstall VirtualBox is mind-blowing. Sometimes, uninstalling and reinstalling isn't enough to solve the problem. Even worse, the errors I get are no help."
"KVM, which stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is an open-source technology built into the Linux kernel. KVM leverages hardware virtualization, such as Intel VT and AMD-V, which promises near-native performance for virtual machines. Also: Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive In other words, there's no need to install KVM on Linux because it's already there. And because KVM is a part of the kernel, I was fairly confident that it would be far"
"I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox. Over the years, I've written probably hundreds of articles about it for various publications and spun up thousands of virtual machines. VirtualBox has been integral to my ability to cover Linux. But recently, I had to wave off the virtual machine manager because I'd had enough. Last month, out of nowhere and just when I needed VirtualBox most, I found I couldn't create virtual machines."
The author abandoned VirtualBox after recurrent failures to create virtual machines and repeated need for purge reinstalls that often failed and produced unhelpful errors. The frequent, intermittent breakages made VirtualBox unreliable for regular use. The alternative chosen combines KVM and Virt-Manager. KVM is built into the Linux kernel and uses Intel VT/AMD‑V hardware virtualization to deliver near‑native VM performance without separate installation. Virt‑Manager provides a graphical front end to manage KVM virtual machines. Virt‑Manager is free and open-source and is presented as more reliable than VirtualBox for Linux virtual machines.
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