Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Kent West wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> ...Virtualbox is going away and will not be in stretch when it >> becomes the stable distro shortly. > Is this true? I've just spent 15 minutes googling for the answer, but > either my google-fu is failing me, or that i

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > ...Virtualbox is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the > stable > distro shortly. > Is this true? I've just spent 15 minutes googling for the answer, but either my google-fu is failing me, or that info is not out ther

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi Mark, if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualboxe's repository. The project provides their own repository for Debian. https://www.vir

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Teemu Likonen
Teemu Likonen [2017-02-17 15:35:28+02] wrote: > I don't know how Windows OS will handle the change of the underlying > machine but disk images should be easy to convert: > > qemu-img -O qcow2 source-image.vdi target-image.qcow2 Must be: qemu-img convert -O qcow2 source-image.vdi target-i

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualboxe's > repository. The project provides their own repository for Debian. > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > Yeah, that's tr

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:00:11PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > > I have recently gone down this path myself. I chose qemu+kvm as my > virtualisation platform of choice, as it seems the most 'natively Linux' > option (that is, QEMU is FOSS and KVM is in the kernel, so no third-party > bits needed)

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 17/02/17 12:46, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 02/17/2017 02:20 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox >> is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable >> distro shortly. > > Hi Mark, > > if Vurtu

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Teemu Likonen
Mark Fletcher [2017-02-17 21:20:18+09] wrote: > My needs are fairly vanilla -- I have a 4-core-with-hyperthreading Intel > Core i7 920 CPU, circa 2009, and 24GB or RAM in the host. I think Qemu fits to most of your needs. > I run 2 VMs, not all the time, which have 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM each.

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 09:20:18PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello! I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable distro shortly. I use Virtualbox for a couple of Windows machines to do the last tas

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 02/17/2017 02:20 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello! > > I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox > is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable > distro shortly. Hi Mark, if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualb

Re: Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2017, 21:20:18 CET schrieb Mark Fletcher: Hi Mark, try KVM, my favourite, it is working great. Use AQEMU as management interface. Maybe QEMU is also a solution. Good luck! Hans > Hello! > > I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox > is g

Migrate Virtualbox

2017-02-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello! I have been reading from a couple of people on this list that Virtualbox is going away and will not be in stretch when it becomes the stable distro shortly. I use Virtualbox for a couple of Windows machines to do the last task I cannot yet migrate to Debian (due to specialist software t