[Discuss] Virt-Manager

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

I'm trying to reproduce Ed's issues. The ISO is 2.75 GB. This should fit on
smaller desktop systems. I'm downloading OP's iso image now. I'll report
after I install.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:51 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have to download Virtiualbox from 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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