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[SOLVED] Changing from VBox to KVM/QEMU?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Given that Oracle seems to be growing increasingly hostile, it seems that it might be good to migrate off of VirtualBox to KVM/QEMU. However, I have some concerns. VirtualBox (Oracle's version, not the OSE edition) supports USB devices and setting up a shared directory that I can use to share files between the host machine and the guest machines. Does a virtual machine under KVM/QEMU have that same capability? Does sound work correctly with KVM/QEMU? Does a Windows VM in KVM/QEMU support DirectX? (that is one area which has given me nothing but problems in VBox.) There is only one of (HowTos)

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