Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

From	Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro
Date	2020-06-02 15:30 +0200
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john doe wrote:
> > 
> > There is an office where the standard desktop OS is Manjaro (a
> > clone of Arch Linux). There is not much choice actually.
> > 
> > I don't very much like Manjaro's packaging system and its lack of many
> > essential packages in binary format. When I need something as simple as
> > codesearch or apg or dateutils, it tries to compile them.
> > 
> > Willing to run a Debian instance within Manjaro, what's my best choice?
> > 
> > The easiest thing that comes to mind is installing VirtualBox in
> > Manjaro, but are there less resource-intensive and GUI-dependent
> > options? Maybe some kind of chroot or container?
> > 
> 
> Qemu preferably with KVM works well with Debian in a VM without a GUI.

The question is maybe I need not emulate hardware at all.

> 
> Chroot/container/VM are not the same, which one you pick depend on what
> you want to do with that Debian.

I mostly want to run Debian userspace commands and install
Debian userspace packages like aws, codesearch, dateutils, mercurial,
colordiff, ansible, mtr and others without the hassle of pacman.

> 
> See also Libvirt to manage your container/VMs.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 06:20 +0200
  Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-02 08:00 +0200
    Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 15:30 +0200
      Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 16:50 +0200
      Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-03 07:50 +0200
        Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-07 14:10 +0200
  Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-06-02 09:20 +0200
    Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> - 2020-06-02 15:30 +0200

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