On 09/11/15 18:58, D&P Dimov wrote:
I need to install MS Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine on a computer that
is running Debian 8. To do that, I'd like to use software that is not
proprietory (I know, I know - this may sounds a bit ridiculous...).
This Debian page: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization
recommends Qemu, KVM, VirtualBox, and Zen. Does anyone have
recommendations for which one is easiest to install for a novice? I
tried the first one, Qemu, but didn't really find a good guide how to
install MS Win 7 with it.
Thanks!
Up until last April, I ran Windows 7 under virtual Box on my Debian
machine for my daily work almost every day for about 2 years. I have
cut down now to one day a week, and generally do that on a Macbook Air,
also running Virtual Box. It worked perfectly.
I updated to Windows 10, through the upgrade program, and that was a
little dodgy until I updated Virtual Box to version 5 and removed 3d
Video acceleration.
The only issue to be careful of, is that the drivers get properly
rebuilt when the linux kernel changes.
When I first started doing this I was very nervous that a machine I
depended on for my daily income was using virtual box, and I spent some
time trying to get KVM working. But I never found a way - struggling
with documentation at every step. VirtualBox on the other hand (apart
from the occassional problem with ensuring the driver modules get
rebuilt) was easy to set up, modify and use.
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
