On Tuesday, 03-12-2024 at 22:26 Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * 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.
+1 ; )
>
> - Nate
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