{"id":216468,"date":"2026-02-22T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/goodbye-virtualbox-i-found-a-better-more-reliable-vm-manager-for-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:25:09","slug":"goodbye-virtualbox-i-found-a-better-more-reliable-vm-manager-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/goodbye-virtualbox-i-found-a-better-more-reliable-vm-manager-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, VirtualBox &#8211; I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/virt-manager-better-vm-manager-than-virtualbox\/\">Goodbye, VirtualBox &#8211; I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/virt-manager-better-vm-manager-than-virtualbox\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/virt-manager-better-vm-manager-than-virtualbox\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-22 21:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen \/ Elyse Betters Picaro \/ ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox.<\/li>\n<li>Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a long-time supporter of\u00a0VirtualBox. Over the years, I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>But recently, I had to wave off the virtual machine manager because I&#8217;d had enough.<\/p>\n<h2>Why I dumped VirtualBox  <\/h2>\n<p>Last month, out of nowhere and just when I needed\u00a0VirtualBox\u00a0most, I found I couldn&#8217;t create virtual machines. When this very same thing happened a week earlier, I had to perform a purge uninstall, and reinstall the software to get it to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0The best Linux distributions for beginners: Expert tested and reviewed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This time around, that purge didn&#8217;t work. No matter what I tried, I couldn&#8217;t get VirtualBox to behave. This same issue has surfaced for me repeatedly over the years. The number of times I&#8217;ve had to uninstall and reinstall VirtualBox is mind-blowing. Sometimes, uninstalling and reinstalling isn&#8217;t enough to solve the problem. Even worse, the errors I get are no help.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I&#8217;d written another piece of VM software that I had mixed feelings about. In some respects, it was better than VirtualBox, but in other respects\u2026 not so much.<\/p>\n<p>That software is a combination of KVM and Virt-Manager.<\/p>\n<h2>What is KVM?<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 &#8211; but one open-source legend may not survive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words, there&#8217;s no need to install KVM on Linux because it&#8217;s already there. And because KVM is a part of the kernel, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/virt-manager-better-vm-manager-than-virtualbox\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, VirtualBox &#8211; I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/virt-manager-better-vm-manager-than-virtualbox\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/f0c457b3a657557d1ee7a1f04fecf5119375d8d2\/2025\/10\/21\/528097af-ec12-4bde-89ad-76c5c3390e09\/linux-distributions-that-are-best-suited-for-new-hardware.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-216468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216470,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216468\/revisions\/216470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}