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Re: Virtualize a Debian system within Manjaro

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Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU 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?
> > 
> > 'systemd-nspawn'. You can use 'debootstrap' to create the Debian chroot, 
> > it was explicitly created to run also on other distributions (it's 
> > written in shell).
> 
> Thanks you, I'll definitely look into that. It that it?
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-nspawn#Create_a_Debian_or_Ubuntu_environment
> 

Just tried debootstrap+systemd-nspawn (Debian on Debian). It reminds me
very much of the FreeBSD jail infrastructure. No unnecessary hardware
emulation.

If it works well on Arch Linux, I'm going to use it there. Thank you
Andrei for the good advice.

-- 
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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