[Discuss] Virt-Manager

[Jerry Feldman]

I downloaded and installed community-pclinuxos64-lxqt-2021.10.iso according
to the same steps I did in my previous post.

I don't understand what Ed means when "I added in the USB hardware to
create the vm"

I just took the standard defaults. I then inserted a USB stick, and it gave
me the standard dialog within the PCLINUXOS VM




On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:

> You may be interested to know that the LXQt PCLOS image contains
> download managers for VIrtual Box and Libre Office. I think it has one
> or two others as well.
>
> Generic Linux 2020, in fact, *none* of the Generlc entries successfully
> worked once I added in the USB hardware to create the vm. Without the
> USB hardware, it originally installed fine. But AFAIK, you can't add the
> USB hardware*after the fact* with virt-manager. So when recreating the
> vm with USB afterwards, that's when I had the problems.
>
>
> On 10/25/21 15:51, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > You have to download Virtiualbox from virtualbox.org
> > <http://virtualbox.org>.
> > I just installed pclinuxos kde using virt-manager successfully
> > First, I set it as "Generic Linux 2020"
> > I booted into the LiveCD. Once that came up, I then installed PCLINUXOS.
> > After it installed, I shut down the LiveCD vm and booted pclinuxos. It
> > came up fine, and networking was working.
> > I'm not sure what issues that the OP has, but this is what worked for me.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:20 PM Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
> >
> >     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.
> >
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