Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create > a one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? Last time I needed such a thing I used LXC. Stefan

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-27 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 26-08-2023 om 18:40 schreef Carl Fink: Hi, I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox, just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then. What's the current recommendation for som

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Mario Marietto
So,surely go with virtualbox or vmware workstation. On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 1:20 AM Carl Fink wrote: > > On 8/26/23 16:01, Mario Marietto wrote: > > If you want a powerful tool,you should spend some of your time on it. > > If you want to use something easier,you will lose some features,at least.

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Carl Fink
On 8/26/23 16:01, Mario Marietto wrote: If you want a powerful tool,you should spend some of your time on it. If you want to use something easier,you will lose some features,at least. Yep. That's why I specified that I was more interested in easy setup in the threadstarter -Carl

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Mario Marietto
If you want a powerful tool,you should spend some of your time on it. If you want to use something easier,you will lose some features,at least. On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 9:43 PM Carl Fink wrote: > Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird > maze of fiddling to get Q

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird > maze of fiddling to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now? > > On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote: > > For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most p

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Carl Fink
Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird maze of fiddling to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now? On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote: For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass thr

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Oliver Wenston
Hey Carl, I am currently using Virtual Box installed through their official website instructions. The screen's top left quadrant has some flashing problems in a Fedora 38 guest, but otherwise works fine. If anyone here knows why that is happening, please let me know. It is a NUC using an the Intel

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread Mario Marietto
For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS even your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you can't. On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM James Bloom wrote: > Carl: > > I use VirtualBox on Debian 12, and I r

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread john doe
On 8/26/23 18:29, Carl Fink wrote: What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create a one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as VirtualBox was back in the day. I use Virsh and virt-man

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-26 Thread James Bloom
Carl: I use VirtualBox on Debian 12, and I run virtual Windows 11 and Linux machines with no issue. I also tried GNOME boxes and had no direct problems, but I went back to using VirtualBox because it was compatible with my cloud storage setup - I can save a VirtualBox virtual machine file in th