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QEMU
Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 16 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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App is harder to use than the QEMU CLI and VMware FusionUnreviewed
20172026- QEMU's CLI is harder to use than VirtualBox's simpler commands2022-04-20
- Found the app hard to use compared with the QEMU CLI and VMware Fusion2021-02-25
- QEMU and KVM are confusing to tell apart and hard to use for desktop users2020-04-15
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 23 complaints
- Apps open in a separate VM window with awkward input focus and login required2025-05-19
- Adding a device means copying and modifying existing code, which is a slog2024-06-06
- CLI arguments changed over time, making proper VM commands hard to build2024-04-16
- Too many options to configure, so the commander can't get it working easily2024-04-16
- Author can't tell which config files to edit to run QEMU2024-04-16
- Setup requires finding tutorials, many packages, manual config, and fixes before VMs run2024-04-16
- Running Docker through a QEMU VM is wonky and fiddly with port forwarding and volumes2022-11-28
- Getting x86_64 and aarch64 Windows VMs reliably working took days of trial and error2022-06-22
- QEMU's CLI is harder to use than VirtualBox's simpler commands2022-04-20
- Documentation is sparse and scattered across multiple locations, hard to find answers2022-04-20
- Networking options do nothing until an unclear extra step is done2021-12-22
- Running guest operating systems requires manual flags and wrapper scripts to work properly2021-10-08
- PS2 mouse uses relative movement, so users must move pointer to position instead of clicking directly2021-04-30
- Virtual machine performance was unusable on a modest system2021-04-30
- Found the app hard to use compared with the QEMU CLI and VMware Fusion2021-02-25
- Setting up QEMU requires configuring via the command line, which is off-putting2020-09-22
- QEMU and KVM are confusing to tell apart and hard to use for desktop users2020-04-15
- Hard to set up, extremely slow, and VM won't boot after restart requiring obscure commands2020-04-15
- Built-in shared folders never work out of the box and lack straightforward permission setup docs2019-12-13
- Setting up GPU passthrough was difficult with few good guides available2019-04-24
- Documentation is sparse, outdated and out of sync, forcing trial and error to build VMs2019-04-24
- Hard to tell whether problems come from the config, game, or drivers2017-10-19
- Mouse and keyboard capture in the VM window is very finicky, making it unusable2017-04-26