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Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95
This is true. If someone says "I just want something that works, and Virtualbox works" it doesn't really raise any eyebrows. It's really the tone of "I am unable to make QEMU/KVM work, since I am not a rocket scientist" that implies, maybe they would use QEMU, if only it wasn't horrifically difficult to get working. I think if your experience with QEMU is this bad, you may have just gotten a bit unlucky and gotten off into the weeds on a detour you probably did not need.
That said, are there reasons why someone who just wants things to work and doesn't want to tinker ever would choose QEMU over Virtualbox? Definitely. Here's a good one: the Virtualbox kernel modules were notoriously problematic. Back in the day, loading the vboxdrv module would add TAINT_CRAP in your running kernel[1], because the kernel developers were tired of dealing with bug reports that are the fault of the vboxdrv. Presumably it's better nowadays, but out-of-tree modules are generally a source of headache. Another good one is features: Virtualbox has a lot of great features for desktop end users, but QEMU can do a whole lot more; it supports absolutely tons of architectures and system options. You get access to a wide range of paravirtualization devices through Virtio drivers, including VirtioFS, a dramatically superior solution for mounting directories into VMs versus Virtualbox's Shared Folders feature, in my opinion. It's also possible to do a lot more advanced things, like setting up a discrete GPU passthrough and Looking Glass, or passing a portion of your Intel iGPU using GVT-g.[2]
Of course, some day Virtualbox may support a KVM backend, just as virtualization tools are starting to support unified hypervisor backends on Windows and macOS. There's even an existing patch, though I do not know what the status is and whether or not it could ever be merged upstream.[3] So maybe in the future, choosing between Virtualbox or KVM will become unnecessary.
For now though, it's definitely not clear what you should recommend to someone IMO. (For this particular use case, I don't even recommend a VM at all; I think for Windows 95, 86Box is a better solution.)
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/6/317
[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g
[3]: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300317
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Graphics Virtualization Support in KVM Back End for VirtualBox
It was here: https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/blob/de...
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VirtualBox-KVM Technical Details and Update
Check out our latest blog post, "VirtualBox KVM Technical Deep-Dive," where we unveil the inner workings of our newly released VirtualBox KVM variant on GitHub. Explore the replacement of the original VirtualBox kernel module with a KVM hypervisor backend for Linux.
Dive into the technical details and discover how we optimized performance, especially for Windows guests: https://cyberus-technology.de/articles/vbox-kvm-deep-dive?ut...
We also pushed our latest state to github where we enabled more paravirtualization enlightenments for Hyper-V. These enlightenments improve VM performance for Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests.
https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/
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VirtualBox KVM Public Release
Starting with VirtualBox 7, USB3 no longer requires the commercial extension pack. See https://github.com/cyberus-technology/virtualbox-kvm/blob/de...
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The primary programming language of virtualbox-kvm is C.
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