* On 2024 03 Dec 02:33 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 3 Dec 2024 00:11 +0000, from p...@hbsys.plus.com (Peter Hillier-Brook): > > Once upon a time I had Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs running > > under VirtualBox on Debian 10 or earlier. Now I need one for some primitive, > > but essential program I cannot remember how I created the VMs (Gene's > > disease, 88 come Sunday) and would welcome any reminders. > > To run VirtualBox on Debian, you need to go out of tree; VirtualBox is > no longer shipped by Debian (except, oddly enough, in Sid from the > looks of it).
It is available via "fasttrack". See: https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox I have it installed on two Bookworm machines though admittedly I don't use it much any more, preferring QEMU instead for all Linux guests which is my primary use. > Unless you have a particular requirement to use _specifically_ > VirtualBox, KVM + AQEMU may be a more reasonable choice these days. Years back I had issues with trying to use a Windows guest in QEMU with the mouse incapable of reaching the entire desktop. That was nearly seven years ago so much likely has changed since. For those guests Virtualbox worked without issue. If Secure Boot is in use the current virtualbox-dkms package from fasttrack installs its own signing key through shim and signs the newly compiled kernel modules thus enabling seamless kernel upgrades. Once again Debian shows that is the most user centric distribution. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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