Please see blog announcement:
EasyOS 2.5.1 released
Moderator: BarryK
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user1111
Re: EasyOS 2.5.1 released
As per viewtopic.php?p=11456#p11456 can report kvm/qemu is working great. Got caught out by the Debian repo, if you just install qemu then when booted it starts serving to vnc, you have to also install the qemu-system package for it to serve a X/gui window. That aside, the kvm worked well, I booted a OpenBSD image, and then vnc'd into a Fatdog server (gui desktop) from within OpenBSD, played a youtube video using seamonkey on that Fatdog box ... and the framerate/viewing-comfort (within EasyOS) was great,
Out of interest I tried building the easy.sfs using -comp xz -Xbcj -b 1048576 and whilst it takes quite a while to create the sfs it does reduce the easy.sfs filesize down from 518MB to 453MB. That would be slower when you first run programs, but once files have been read once more often they remain cached such that subsequent runs see no difference in speeds. If that were solely used it would also frees up space for other things (such as even more work area zram/smaller sdb1, larger sdb2, and/or more 'stuff' being crammed into easy.sfs - perhaps even kvm/qemu 
I booted kvm/qemu in the main session, haven't yet tried to see if it runs in a container.
EDIT: kvm/qemu doesn't boot inside Buster container (unsurprisingly/as-expected). Standard qemu does boot - but is painfully slow, not really usable. That might however be down to having booted the iso from the 'shared' folder region (generally files dropped into the shared folder in the main easyOS do encounter slow 'transfer/access' speeds within the containers 'shared' folder.
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Re: EasyOS 2.5.1 released
@rufwoof
That's great!
For everyone reading this thread, note that we are experiencing a kernel panic with some hardware, some older PCs. Reported here for EasyPup:
https://easyos.org/forum/showthread.php ... 10#pid1310
EasyPup 2.5.1 has same kernel as EasyOS, 5.4.81, however, for EasyPup 2.5, I used an older kernel, 4.19.157, and that worked for Rodney.
I would like to find out what is going wrong with the 5.4.x kernel. let me know if you experience a kernel panic with booting 2.5.1, EasyOS or EasyPup.
I have a small collection of PCs and laptops, and 5.4.x boots on all of them. Oldest is a Compaq Presario, with Core2 CPU.