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VirtualBox has been packaged as a Flatpak (ursal.zone)
submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

KVM is only used for the CPU portions

[โ€“] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Surely it uses KVM for memory isolation as well.

I guess what you are saying is that VirtualBox is still doing device emulation. If so, we agree.