songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > ... > > i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into > them. > > > > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye > > within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for something slightly > > 'lighter weight' than a full-blown virtual machine like virtualbox > > though I guess I can use virtualbox if I have to. > > the easiest and lightest weight to me is just having > another partition and booting that. no extra layers of > anything needed at all. > No use at all! :-) It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it in E-Mail or whatever.
A VirtualBox instance running the old distro would work for me as you can share files between that an the 'parent' system but it really seems like overkill for running just one little app/program. At present the simplest solution for me seems to be to install the old distro on a low-power consumption system and simply run the scanner utility via 'ssh -X' so that I can see it on my desktop screen. That does work OK, the only downside is the small extra bit of power consumption. -- Chris Green ยท
