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hankg@friendica.myportal.social
Hank G ☑

I've been using KVM with Virt-Manager in production instead of VirtualBox on my workstation for a week now. Only two hiccups so far is that coming back from sleeping a VM seems broken (I don't do that too often though) and it seems that movies/music playing in multiple VMs can create some intermittent weird sound/sync issues in other VMs. Those are very tolerable to me so I'm going to call this a success so far. #kvm #VirtualBox

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hankg@friendica.myportal.social
Hank G ☑

My further experiments with KVM have been great. VM Performance, especially Windows VMs, seems way better than VirtualBox. There are some UX quirks with setting up shared folders in general. I still haven't gotten them working on Windows VMs. But with half my VMs converted and all working concurrently I think I may be switching over in production soon. #programming #VirtualBox #KVM

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janet_logan@diasp.org
Janet Logan đŸłïžâ€âš§ïž

Fun with new computer

"Last week, I bought a new computer for myself / work. I was using a borrowed, older AMD system, which struggled under the load of what I use a computer to accomplish. Yesterday, I undertook to set up that computer."

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#ComputerUpgrade #Tablet #VirtualBox

Fun with new computer

Last week, I bought a new computer for myself / work. I was using a borrowed, older AMD system, which struggled under the load of what I use a computer to accomplish. Yesterday, I undertook to set 


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utzer@social.yl.ms
utzer [Friendica]

Does anyone have an idea why my #Windows 10 VM in #Virtualbox only shows a black screen when booted up (login screen)?

This also happens when I resize the window.

The guest additions are up-to-date, so that should not be the problem. The host is #Debian with #Xfce, but I think this might not be the problem, because it worked from some time and other Windows 10 VMs also work.

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utzer@social.yl.ms
utzer [Friendica]

Anyone here who lately upgraded #Virtualbox from 7.0.2 to 7.0.10 and has lots of "black screens" for Windows 10 virtual machines?
Resize screen -> "black screen"
Boot Windows, login screen loads -> "black screen"

It worked till before the update. I installed the extensions upgrade.

Temporary solution it to safe the state of the vm and start it again, then the screen shows the Windows screen output again.

rainerhgw@diasp.org
Rainer Sokoll ✅

Interessant.
Auf Rechner A funktioniert #Virtualbox mit einer gebridgten WLAN-Verbindung einwandfrei. Auf Rechner B gibts (mit dem Treiber PCnet-PCI II) nur IPv6 via SLAAC, v4 via DHCP gibts nirgendwo, auch ein explizites Setzen der IP bringt keine KonnektivitÀt. v6 ist allerdings unbenutzbar, da keinerlei Pakete rausgehen aus der VM.
NAT funktioniert.
Es sind zwei unterschiedliche Broadcom-ChipsÀtze.

#alleskaputt

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canoodle@nerdpol.ch
SilouettE

GNU Linux Debian 11 - Gnome Boxes - an Open Source VirtualBox replacement?

In search for alternatives, decided to test drive “gnome boxes“, which is said, to be an easy-going gui for the libvirt qemu virtualization system.

<span style="color: #00ffff;">lsb_release -d</span>; # tested on
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

<span style="color: #00ffff;">su - root
apt update
</span># with MATE Desktop (Gnome2) it's actually only 175MBytes that needs to be downloaded<span style="color: #00ffff;">
apt install gnome-boxes
apt show gnome-boxes</span>
Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 3.38.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 7,140 kB
Depends: genisoimage, libosinfo-bin, libvirt-daemon, tracker (>= 2.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libarchive13 (>= 3.1.2), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfreerdp2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2) | libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.52.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.20), libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (>= 0.5.1), libgtksourceview-4-0 (>= 2.91.4), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 165), libhandy-0.0-0 (>= 0.0.11), libosinfo-1.0-0 (>= 1.4.0~), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.44), libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 (>= 0.35), libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 (>= 0.32), libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (>= 0.10.0), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8), libvirt-glib-1.0-0 (>= 3.0.0), libvte-2.91-0 (>= 0.40.2), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.26), libwinpr2-2 (>= 2.0.0~git20160317.1.75ae3f5+dfsg1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.8)
Recommends: qemu-system-x86
Breaks: libspice-server1 (<< 0.12.5-1.1~)
Homepage: <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes">https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes</a>
Tag: admin::virtualization, hardware::emulation, implemented-in::python,
 implemented-in::vala, interface::graphical, interface::x11,
 role::program, scope::application, suite::gnome, suite::openstack,
 system::cloud, system::virtual, uitoolkit::gtk, use::simulating,
 use::viewing, x11::application
Download-Size: 1,085 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: <a href="http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian">http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian</a> bullseye/main amd64 Packages
Description: Simple GNOME app to access remote or virtual systems

 GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines,

 remote physical machines, or remote virtual machines.

Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.

Hardware virtualization is required to use local virtual machines.

as minimalistic as the description is the gui:

indeed nothing against a bit of gui minimalism


kvm is developed by Redhat
 that’s why it is right there on top
 but there is more for “easy” or “instant” install


would have been nice, if the disk size can be directly entered in numbers as well


also a checkbox for “thin provisioning” would have been nice

but it definately works

the vm properties tab, might be a bit too minimalistic
 when changing vm settings afterwards, the user will have to rely on the user’s xml editing skillz ;-p

this isa nicely done overview screen
 showing real time thumbnails of the all vm’s current desktop


when almost finished installing Debian 11
 gnome boxes skips the “where to install grub” screen and reports “debian 11 is ready to use”

but it won’t boot X-D

just in case if the cursor is “stuck” it can be released by hitting Ctrl+Alt

the gui minimalism is a nice try, but gnome-boxes got some quality issues there, not ready for use with Debian, not ready to replace redhat’s kvm’s excellent virtmanager, which works flawless under GNU Linux Debian and has way more settings to modify vms

https://dwaves.de/2020/12/05/gnu-linux-debian-10-how-to-install-kvm-virtualization-qemu-basic-virsh-commands-kvm-cheat-sheed/

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #gnome #boxes #virtualbox #kvm #virtual #vm #virtualization #qemu

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/05/10/gnu-linux-debian-11-gnome-boxes-an-open-source-virtualbox-replacement/

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canoodle@nerdpol.ch
SilouettE

GNU Linux Debian 11 (bullseye) - how to install virtualbox 6.1

<span style="color: #00ffff;">lsb_release -a</span>; # tested with
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release:    11
Codename:   bullseye

<span style="color: #00ffff;">su - root
wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.32/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.32-149290~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb
</span>sha512sum 7e977fde8a2fc370d7df24f761e75eced308ea17037113db877bd799abec4a3a9b6324fcbfda2d2a67d63fbe23b822abbd36ab0f9af4fc5c352df04a97dbe550

# needs to be dpkg installed manually

<span style="color: #00ffff;">apt update && apt upgrade

apt install software-properties-common libvpx6 libqt5opengl5 libqt5x11extras5 libsdl1.2debian 

linux-headers-amd64 linux-headers-$(uname -r) gcc make

dpkg -i virtualbox-6.1_6.1.32-149290~Debian~bullseye_amd64.deb

/sbin/vboxconfig
</span>

#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #oracle #virtualbox #debian #gnu-linux

Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2022/02/24/gnu-linux-debian-11-bullseye-how-to-install-virtualbox-6-1/

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