Greetings to readers.
My name is Andreas , I have long been a video blog (SunAndreas) on the topic of civil information security and today about which hypervisors and virtual machine managers are best used for special lovers of privacy and freedom. If you are not familiar with other materials on my YouTube channel, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with its contents.
There is very little information on the web on more ethical analogues of virtualization tools, and the available information is not sufficient and not fully accessible to a wide range of people. Today's theoretical release is more for ordinary users and is part of a video cycle on my channel about virtualization, expect further practical parts about installing, configuring and using more orthodox virtualization than VirtualBox. In the practical parts, we will also talk about the work of virtual machines with VPN and TOR. For now, a little theory.
The web is all about VirtualBox, yes, VirtualBox. Of course, this is a very simple and convenient option for completely newbies, as well as for Windows users who value convenience and popularity more, but for conscious people using GNU / Linux systems, I highly recommend switching, if you still have not done this, to more ethical counterparts, after, like a couple of years ago, Oracle, slightly revised its position in relation to VirtualBox.
Earlier, more than 4 years ago, when the almost legendary video called SunbooK was published on the channel , then VirtualBox was more of an open and free project, there was no dismissiveness on my part, but now it is better to use other hypervisors, so more, that they make it easy to import virtual disks, that is, essentially virtual machines that were previously created using VirtualBox. Thus, moving from VirtualBox to other solutions can cost you even without losing data.
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In subsequent publications, I will show the work of virt-manager with QEMU-KVM, which will be understandable even to an inexperienced user, which I consider to be especially socially useful, especially since the work of this software even in the English segment of the Internet does not have enough information in my opinion. And in the Russian-speaking sphere, I have not come across anything particularly worthy on this topic at all. Only superficial reviews of little value.
All development and success.