There has to be better VM software out there than Virtual box.

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QEmu?

I'll take a look, I just need a quick way to spin up a VM to test scripts that are made to be run on fresh installations.

Why not docker? That's the most simple possibility, imho

virt-manager is pretty awesome, and lets you use kvm, lxc, qemu

kvm and secondary video cards is pretty cool - i was able to run full speed windows 3d games using it last year with GPU passthrough and KVM

Depends on what you're looking for. QEmu/KVM, Xen, VWware, etc.

I’ve used proxmox a bit. Seemed ok

It depends what you need. Do you want to run a VM into your desk OS or you can install a whole OS for that? In the second case I recommend #proxmox.

Just something to test scripts on a "fresh" machine.

if you aren't worried about it blowing up the kernel you should check out nspawn, which directly runs and links LXC containers with systemd

i wrote some bash scripts that use it for relaytools deployments:

https://github.com/relaytools/relay-tools-images/blob/main/machines/build

there's more examples elsewhere in that repo too that might be interesting

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