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Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

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From: Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19
Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it
up?
To: <deloptes@gmail.com>




On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 6:03 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:

> rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > What would you recommend for the software to run a VM under Jessie (that
> > would probably run Ubuntu), and can you recommend a fairly simple set of
> > instructions to first set up the VM, and then at least begin the install
> > process to that VM.
>
> Recently I am using headless or sometimes visual virtualbox. If you want it
> headless virtualbox is better. There are packages to download. I don't know
> if and which work on jessie.
> I do not think you need a backup if you install the packages.



I second this. I’ve been using virtualbox since around etch or so I think —
anyway a while. Since you’re on Jessie it should be in the repos. From
stretch on you need to add a repo to get it as it fell out if the Debian
repo. But it is still in Jessie — at least it was when Jessie was stable.

I have always found virtualbox surprisingly easy to set up and use — a lot
of things that as a noob I expected to be hard just weren’t. There’s a good
visual setup screen for creating new VMs and the documentation is quite
good as I recall.

The only thing I’ve never got working properly is 3D acceleration.

HTH

Mark

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Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-06 17:20 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2018-12-06 18:50 +0100
    Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 02:00 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-06 19:00 +0100
    Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 02:10 +0100
      Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 04:20 +0100
        Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 04:40 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 04:50 +0100
            OT(?) question {Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-07 12:10 +0100
            Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-07 19:50 +0100
              Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 20:40 +0100
                Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-12-08 01:00 +0100
                Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-08 02:30 +0100
              Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and  Instructions to set it up?) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-12-07 20:40 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-12-07 08:20 +0100
            Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-12-07 13:10 +0100
          Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it  up? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-12-07 11:10 +0100
  Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-06 22:10 +0100
    Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 00:30 +0100
      Re: Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-07 09:10 +0100

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