Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread George at Clug
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 +, 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 Debi

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread jman
George at Clug writes: I would also recommend the free version of VMware Workstation. While not FOSS, it is an excellent product, while it is made available for personal use. Don't want to spread fear but it's worth reminding that relying on software owned by Oracle, even when distributed fo

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 03/12/2024 00:11, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 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

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2024 03 Dec 02:33 -0600, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 3 Dec 2024 00:11 +, 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 ess

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 03-12-2024 at 21:04 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 3/12/24 16:49, George at Clug wrote: > > I would also recommend the free version of VMware Workstation. While not > > FOSS, it is an excellent product, while it is made available for > > personal use > > > No it's not! VMware Wo

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/12/24 16:49, George at Clug wrote: I would also recommend the free version of VMware Workstation. While not FOSS, it is an excellent product, while it is made available for personal use No it's not! VMware Workstation is a buggy as hell on Windows and nearly unusable on Debian. I

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread George at Clug
On Tuesday, 03-12-2024 at 11:11 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > 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

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 3 Dec 2024 00:11 +, 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

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/12/24 10:11, jeremy ardley wrote: The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter With the ISO images. you can create a .iso from a CDROM by sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso bs=4M You can also map a physi

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-02 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/12/24 08:11, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: 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

Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-02 Thread Sridhar M A
On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 5:49 AM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > The sources are all licensed products on CD-ROMs and VirtualBox seems to > expect ISO inputs which is, of course a non-starter. > If you have the cd's making iso's from them is easy. You can use the dd command from the terminal to creat

VirtualBox and Windows VMs

2024-12-02 Thread 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. The sources are a