[Discuss] Virt-Manager

[epp at sillydog.org (Edward)]

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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