john doe wrote: > > > > There is an office where the standard desktop OS is Manjaro (a > > clone of Arch Linux). There is not much choice actually. > > > > I don't very much like Manjaro's packaging system and its lack of many > > essential packages in binary format. When I need something as simple as > > codesearch or apg or dateutils, it tries to compile them. > > > > Willing to run a Debian instance within Manjaro, what's my best choice? > > > > The easiest thing that comes to mind is installing VirtualBox in > > Manjaro, but are there less resource-intensive and GUI-dependent > > options? Maybe some kind of chroot or container? > > > > Qemu preferably with KVM works well with Debian in a VM without a GUI.
The question is maybe I need not emulate hardware at all. > > Chroot/container/VM are not the same, which one you pick depend on what > you want to do with that Debian. I mostly want to run Debian userspace commands and install Debian userspace packages like aws, codesearch, dateutils, mercurial, colordiff, ansible, mtr and others without the hassle of pacman. > > See also Libvirt to manage your container/VMs. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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