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Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs

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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 phb@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             ; )


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VirtualBox and Windows VMs Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2024-12-03 01:20 +0100
  Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs Sridhar M A <alaymari@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 02:00 +0100
  Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 03:20 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 03:40 +0100
  Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-12-03 09:40 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-12-03 12:30 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-03 21:00 +0100
  Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-03 09:50 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 11:10 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-03 12:00 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs jman <debian-user@city17.xyz> - 2024-12-03 14:30 +0100
  Re: VirtualBox and Windows VMs Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2024-12-03 13:40 +0100

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