[Discuss] Virt-Manager

[Edward]

Debian does not provide VirtualBox. They only offer virt-manager and 
Gnome Boxes.

The system basically wants to install most (if not all) of the same 
dependencies for Gnome Boxes, that it did for virt-manager. When I was 
using Fedora, Jerry told me about Gnome Boxes and I found it very easy 
to use. But given my experience with virt-manager, I would expect the 
same issues if I tried Gnome Boxes.

I went with PCLOS' Community LXQt image because I'm used to that desktop 
and it's lightweight, wasn't expecting any issues running/installing it 
in a VM.



On 10/25/21 14:55, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> As an alternative I use Virtualbox at home.  Works great.  Zero complaints.  I use Vagrant on occasion to control programmatically.
>
> I started with Virtualbox years ago as it supported older CPUs.  I think somebody on this list turned me on to it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Eric C
>
> Chadbourne.Consulting
>
>> On Oct 25, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
>>
>> After realizing that I forgot to add the relevant USB hardware to the VM, I deleted it, as they could be not added after the fact.
>>
>> Upon attempting to recreate it with the USB hardware added in, all attempts were unsuccessful. virt-manager wants the name of the distro during the creation of the VM. Since the name of the distro (PCLinuxOS) was not in the database, I tried all four of the 'Generic' entries, the latest Mandriva (EOL) entry (2011) since the distro was originally based on Mandriva), Clear Linux, Arch Linux and finally Ubuntu.
>>
>> None of these would boot the image into a usable live desktop to which the OS could then be installed. The image either crashed within the VM, it froze on the screen to select the keyboard, or IF the desktop appeared, once a second Network Manager applet icon appeared, the video server crashes and reboots the desktop, repeatedly. The only way to exit was to use virt-manager's Force Off option.
>>
>> So I have reached the conclusion, that, in a home environment, a VM serves no useful purpose and is quite frankly, a waste of time, IMHO.