You may be interested to know that the LXQt PCLOS image contains
download managers for VIrtual Box and Libre Office. I think it has one
or two others as well.
Generic Linux 2020, in fact, *none* of the Generlc entries successfully
worked once I added in the USB hardware to create the vm. Without the
USB hardware, it originally installed fine. But AFAIK, you can't add the
USB hardware*after the fact* with virt-manager. So when recreating the
vm with USB afterwards, that's when I had the problems.
On 10/25/21 15:51, Jerry Feldman wrote:
You have to download Virtiualbox from virtualbox.org
<http://virtualbox.org>.
I just installed pclinuxos kde using virt-manager successfully
First, I set it as "Generic Linux 2020"
I booted into the LiveCD. Once that came up, I then installed PCLINUXOS.
After it installed, I shut down the LiveCD vm and booted pclinuxos. It
came up fine, and networking was working.
I'm not sure what issues that the OP has, but this is what worked for me.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:20 PM Edward <e...@sillydog.org> wrote:
Debian does not provide VirtualBox. They only offer virt-manager and
Gnome Boxes.
The system basically wants to install most (if not all) of the same
dependencies for Gnome Boxes, that it did for virt-manager. When I
was
using Fedora, Jerry told me about Gnome Boxes and I found it very
easy
to use. But given my experience with virt-manager, I would expect the
same issues if I tried Gnome Boxes.
I went with PCLOS' Community LXQt image because I'm used to that
desktop
and it's lightweight, wasn't expecting any issues
running/installing it
in a VM.
On 10/25/21 14:55, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> As an alternative I use Virtualbox at home. Works great. Zero
complaints. I use Vagrant on occasion to control programmatically.
>
> I started with Virtualbox years ago as it supported older CPUs.
I think somebody on this list turned me on to it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Eric C
>
> Chadbourne.Consulting
>
>> On Oct 25, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Edward <e...@sillydog.org> wrote:
>>
>> After realizing that I forgot to add the relevant USB hardware
to the VM, I deleted it, as they could be not added after the fact.
>>
>> Upon attempting to recreate it with the USB hardware added in,
all attempts were unsuccessful. virt-manager wants the name of the
distro during the creation of the VM. Since the name of the distro
(PCLinuxOS) was not in the database, I tried all four of the
'Generic' entries, the latest Mandriva (EOL) entry (2011) since
the distro was originally based on Mandriva), Clear Linux, Arch
Linux and finally Ubuntu.
>>
>> None of these would boot the image into a usable live desktop
to which the OS could then be installed. The image either crashed
within the VM, it froze on the screen to select the keyboard, or
IF the desktop appeared, once a second Network Manager applet icon
appeared, the video server crashes and reboots the desktop,
repeatedly. The only way to exit was to use virt-manager's Force
Off option.
>>
>> So I have reached the conclusion, that, in a home environment,
a VM serves no useful purpose and is quite frankly, a waste of
time, IMHO.
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